Kerrynne Liddle (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Child Protection and the Prevention of Family Violence) Share this | Hansard source

Almost always, and with everything, the most vulnerable are affected the most. The Albanese government spent $450 million on a referendum doomed to fail. This could have doubled annual funding for child and family services in the Northern Territory, where notifications of harm to children continue to go up, not down. Why do you continue to oppose an audit into Indigenous program funding and a royal commission into child sexual abuse in Indigenous communities when, in the Northern Territory, the torment and trauma of those children at risk—