Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Those opposite should be interested in this because it is in stark comparison with what they have provided. One simple application for funding activities across five program streams I outlined earlier is part of this government's determination to reduce red tape, cut duplication and inefficiency, and ease the administrative burden on organisations delivering services on the ground. There has been, in the past, too much bureaucracy in those opposite's old system. For example, 820 Indigenous organisations funded under just one department's grant system were required to submit 20,671 performance, financial and acquittal reports in 2010-11. Organisations funded to deliver a better outcome on the ground should be able to get on with the job of improving the circumstances of our first Australians. They should not be required to fill out endless reports against multiple contracts. (Time expired)