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

There are mutterings from the other side. I'll be making a submission to the Senate inquiry. A Senate committee has been inquiring into the previous iteration of this. I say to those interjecting that 60 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people deserted the system under those opposite. Our repairing of that and getting people back and engaged has ensured that more than 65 per cent of people now attend those activities. We will be going to a round of consultation. On the basis of that round of consultation, we won't be just rolling it out immediately. We've selected between six and eight sites to ensure that the change in the IT systems and the buy-in from those communities enable us to learn the lessons, so we don't do exactly what we did with the RJCP—introduce it in three months and have 60 per cent of people desert it.