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

Listen, one of the normal things in this place is you would write someone a letter. You don't 'blark' in the media, 'Oh, I've done all these sorts of things.' So look, I will be meeting with the Western Australian government, I will be meeting with the South Australian government. And one of the questions I will be asking them is: why, over the last decade, have they walked away from any investment in Indigenous housing for their constituencies? Why is it that surreptitiously, from the day the Commonwealth walked in there, the special purpose payments for housing and the homelessness fund have had nothing put into Indigenous housing by those states? I'm looking forward to meeting those people and, if you give an absolute fig for any of those people who live in those houses, you wouldn't be supporting those states with their, I suspect, very racist approach to allocation of housing.