Malarndirri McCarthy (NT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Indigenous Australians) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator Cox. Well, our resilience packages have meant more funding for remote stores across the country to upgrade things like storage and refrigeration and to install solar panels. These resilience packages are having an impact, but don't take it from me. Dion Kelly, chair of the Lajamanu Progress Aboriginal Corporation, said: 'The food resilience grant has made a real difference for our community of Lajamanu this wet season. For the last three years, we've had to fly all of our goods in from Darwin during the wet season. Now that the store has a larger warehouse and new freezer, we can hold up to 10 weeks of stock. This keeps our food security strong during the toughest months of the wet season.' I'm proud we've announced that 75 additional remote stores right across Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Queensland and South Australia will now be able to apply for these improvements.