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

Amity is, I suppose, in the demographic of the many organisations that thought, reasonably, they would hedge their bets. They are currently funded under the Health portfolio. They will currently have an application under the Health portfolio to continue their funding. Amity are a good organisation; I expect that funding to be continued. They then applied—hoping to hedge their bets—to be funded under the IAS. I have said to them, 'You're currently funded through a different funding stream, under the Department of Health, and they should consider you properly for funding that will be announced before 30 June.' I have been very clear with Amity that that is the case.

So the simple answer to the question is that they have applied under the wrong stream. They know and are aware that their funding stream is under the Department of Health and will continue to be under the Department of Health, not in the discretionary grants stream under the Indigenous Advancement Strategy.