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Mar 20th, 2018 at 7:35pm
 
Media silence: NT Govt caught stealing $2 billion from Indigenous budget

There has been nothing but silence after The Australian newspaper revealed the NT Government kept over $2 billion of it’s Indigenous aid budget.
The scathing report from The Australian came at a time when all eyes were on the NT after a shocking case of child sexual abuse hit Tennant Creek. The NT is facing a mountain of problems right now. From Indigenous health to housing, unemployment to education. Indigenous communities really need all the help they can get. The situation is nothing short of a national disgrace.

While many people have their fingers pointed directly at Aboriginal communities, no one seems to be questioning the $2 billion of Indigenous funding that was taken out of Indigenous aid budgets by the NT Govt. Can you honestly say that problems would be so bad in these communities if the $2 billion was invested like it was supposed to be?

The report revealed that successive governments under-spent on allocated Indigenous and remote disadvantage GST funding. The total of under-spending has now reached around $2.2 billion dollars. In 2014, we saw outrage when Tony Abbot and Warren Mundine announced nationwide Indigenous budget cuts of over $500 million. Now it has been revealed that $2 billion was stripped secretly from some of the most disadvantaged Aboriginal communities and there is nothing but silence.

We can’t blame the public for not knowing about this as the only article about this story is behind a pay-wall on The Australian’s subscription based website. But other media throughout Australia have no excuse for ignoring this. What is really going on here? Is there going to be another military backed intervention in the NT? An intervention aided once again by Australia’s media that is only telling one side of the story?

We are facing an extremely concerning time right now. While some regions of Australia are talking about truth and reconciliation the NT government appear to be doing all they can to demonise, degrade and de-stabilise Indigenous communities. And while all this goes on, there are persistent fears of fracking and remote community closures.

If you’re feeling helpless as to what you can do. Let’s start by sharing this story. At present, this is the only non-paywall article talking about the misuse of over $2 billion dollars. And lets start putting pressure and questioning why other news sites aren’t reporting on both sides of the story in the Northern Territory.


https://www.welcometocountry.org/nt-govt-2-billion-indigenous-budget/
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Reply #1 - Mar 20th, 2018 at 8:00pm
 
Is the NT state govt a Labor Govt ?
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Reply #2 - Mar 20th, 2018 at 8:01pm
 
Abos have a budget?

They can always stop lolly-gagging on the front porch eating water melon and chicken and get off the piss and their fat, lazy arses and get a real job...

Tell me more....  Huh

Concentration camp the lot of them under strict discipline and rules, put them in clean housing, treat them for health issues, get 'em off the piss and the drugs and the petrol sniffing, arrest and imprison those who abuse young children, and put them on a list for working the chain gang.... teach 'em how to drive a grader etc ....... that sounds like an answer....
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Reply #3 - Mar 20th, 2018 at 9:56pm
 
Well as NT has an imposter Labor "govt" what else would you expect but corruption, corruption and more corruption.



NT Government criticised for giving top Aboriginal affairs job to former MLA
By Sara Everinghan Updated 25 Jan 2018, 11:09am

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PHOTO: Lynne Walker outside NT Parliament in Darwin. Former Member for Nhulunbuy Lynne Walker has been given another job in the Labor Government. (ABC News)

RELATED STORY: Gunner lays down the law over leaks critical of his leadership
RELATED STORY: NT Labor MLA quits 'hollow' roles bestowed on backbenchers after landslide win
RELATED STORY: Northern Territory passes laws to set up ICAC

The Northern Territory's Labor Government has come under fire for giving a former politician who was abandoned by remote Aboriginal voters in 2016 a job as a top Indigenous affairs adviser to the Chief Minister.

Lynne Walker lost the seat of Nhulunbuy on the north-east tip of Arnhem Land in the 2016 NT election when voters in the electorate's remote Aboriginal communities dumped Labor and instead voted for Independent Yolngu candidate Yingiya Mark Guyula.

Ms Walker's new taxpayer-funded position comes after she was moved from the first government job given to her upon the loss of her seat.

She had been initially made director of the Government's community engagement unit, the staff of which include several other Labor insiders.

That unit was recently reshuffled after independent politicians labelled it the Labor Government's taxpayer-funded re-election committee, a claim repeatedly denied by Chief Minister Michael Gunner.

The ABC has learned that late last year, the unit's staffers — which include another failed Labor candidate, Anthony Venes — were also quietly dispersed into other ministerial offices.

The Government is copping the same criticism it used to level at the previous Country Liberals Party (CLP) administration — that it is looking after political hangers-on at the expense of taxpayers and rigorous policy-making.


'Jobs for the boys and girls'
Independent MLA Gerry Wood said he was concerned failed candidates could use taxpayer-funded positions for political purposes such as trying to win back their seats.

"I've always been uncomfortable with people who haven't been successful in an election and then, all of a sudden, getting jobs with the Government," Mr Wood said.

"I just sometimes get the feeling it's jobs for the boys and girls, something which the Government when it was in opposition certainly accused the CLP Government in its time of doing the same thing."

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PHOTO: Gerry Wood said the position should have been advertised publicly. (ABC News)

Mr Wood also said that while Ms Walker was "definitely a very professional person" and had been a good local member, her position should have been advertised in case a local Aboriginal person had wanted to apply.

Mr Gunner's spokesman said Ms Walker — a former teacher turned politician — was suitable for the Aboriginal affairs role, which involves advising on remote community sustainability, because she had held a remote electorate and had spent 30 years living in and around Aboriginal communities.

"She brings extensive experience and value in this area," a spokesman for Mr Gunner said.

Pressure for portfolio to go to an Aboriginal MLA
Ms Walker's new job could also fuel a simmering unrest among some Labor politicians who feel little progress has been made in Aboriginal affairs since the party won more than a year ago, and that government MLAs who hold remote seats are not given enough say on Aboriginal affairs policy.

Several of the Government's own members have been pressuring the Chief Minister to give the portfolio to one of the Government's Aboriginal MLAs.

Some MLAs have also been concerned the Government's Aboriginal Affairs cabinet sub-committee, which is supposed to give Aboriginal MLAs a voice in Cabinet, has held only two full meetings since it was announced 16 months ago, and has failed to make any headway on policy reform.

Last year Chansey Paech, an Aboriginal MLA who holds the remote seat of Namatjira in Central Australia, resigned as co-chair of the sub-committee.

"My priority is being a good member and being out in the electorate with my constituents," Mr Paech said.

Scott McConnell, an MLA who holds the remote electorate of Stuart, has spoken openly of his concerns that his government pays more attention to ministerial advisers than elected MLAs.

Mr McConnell said Ms Walker had "important experience" and hoped the staff changes would give elected MLAs in the bush a greater voice.

"I was elected to represent the people of Stuart, I ended up winning with a very good margin and the reason I was elected was because I had a strong voice," Mr McConnell said.

"That strong voice needs to be heard and systems within government need to make sure that the strong voice of their MLAs, particularly Labor MLAs, are heard."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-25/nt-government-criticised-aboriginal-affair...
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Reply #4 - Mar 21st, 2018 at 2:03am
 
Cut all the Abo money.  Everybody gets the same. No more of this duplication of services which costs billions and achieves less than nothing.
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Reply #5 - Mar 21st, 2018 at 5:49am
 
But that is the Socialist way. Reward the unachievers.
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Reply #6 - Mar 21st, 2018 at 5:59am
 
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Mar 20th, 2018 at 8:01pm:
Abos have a budget?

They can always stop lolly-gagging on the front porch eating water melon and chicken and get off the piss and their fat, lazy arses and get a real job...

Tell me more....  Huh

Concentration camp the lot of them under strict discipline and rules, put them in clean housing, treat them for health issues, get 'em off the piss and the drugs and the petrol sniffing, arrest and imprison those who abuse young children, and put them on a list for working the chain gang.... teach 'em how to drive a grader etc ....... that sounds like an answer....


Tough Love is called for to bring these communities in line with the public's expectation that they pull their own weight by becoming productive.


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Reply #7 - Mar 21st, 2018 at 6:32am
 
But LH ever since the Dark People invaded Australia over the land connection between New Guinea and Australia they have lived off the land and done as little as possible.

They have adapted to the later White Invasion by continuing to do as little as possible and are now living off the White Man's Welfare.
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Reply #8 - Mar 21st, 2018 at 6:34am
 
That strong voice needs to be heard and systems within government need to make sure that the strong voice of their MLAs, particularly Labor MLAs, are heard



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Reply #9 - Mar 21st, 2018 at 8:16am
 
Corruption and misuse of taxpayers' funds is the Labor way.
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Reply #10 - Mar 21st, 2018 at 8:19am
 
It's not stealing if they don't own or have not earned the money.

It's simply redirection to a better and more fruitful cause.

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Jasin wrote on Mar 20th, 2018 at 7:35pm:
Media silence: NT Govt caught stealing $2 billion from Indigenous budget

There has been nothing but silence after The Australian newspaper revealed the NT Government kept over $2 billion of it’s Indigenous aid budget.
The scathing report from The Australian came at a time when all eyes were on the NT after a shocking case of child sexual abuse hit Tennant Creek. The NT is facing a mountain of problems right now. From Indigenous health to housing, unemployment to education. Indigenous communities really need all the help they can get. The situation is nothing short of a national disgrace.

While many people have their fingers pointed directly at Aboriginal communities, no one seems to be questioning the $2 billion of Indigenous funding that was taken out of Indigenous aid budgets by the NT Govt. Can you honestly say that problems would be so bad in these communities if the $2 billion was invested like it was supposed to be?

The report revealed that successive governments under-spent on allocated Indigenous and remote disadvantage GST funding. The total of under-spending has now reached around $2.2 billion dollars. In 2014, we saw outrage when Tony Abbot and Warren Mundine announced nationwide Indigenous budget cuts of over $500 million. Now it has been revealed that $2 billion was stripped secretly from some of the most disadvantaged Aboriginal communities and there is nothing but silence.

We can’t blame the public for not knowing about this as the only article about this story is behind a pay-wall on The Australian’s subscription based website. But other media throughout Australia have no excuse for ignoring this. What is really going on here? Is there going to be another military backed intervention in the NT? An intervention aided once again by Australia’s media that is only telling one side of the story?

We are facing an extremely concerning time right now. While some regions of Australia are talking about truth and reconciliation the NT government appear to be doing all they can to demonise, degrade and de-stabilise Indigenous communities. And while all this goes on, there are persistent fears of fracking and remote community closures.

If you’re feeling helpless as to what you can do. Let’s start by sharing this story. At present, this is the only non-paywall article talking about the misuse of over $2 billion dollars. And lets start putting pressure and questioning why other news sites aren’t reporting on both sides of the story in the Northern Territory.


https://www.welcometocountry.org/nt-govt-2-billion-indigenous-budget/

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Reply #12 - Mar 21st, 2018 at 8:37am
 
LW does another mindless copy. Just wants to try to get noticed. Something in the water in Globally Cooled Tasmania ?
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