FED: Labor wants answers on indigenous missing millions

AAP General News (Australia)
08-21-2007
FED: Labor wants answers on indigenous missing millions

More than 100 million dollars .. allocated to indigenous health .. education and family
violence .. has disappeared .. and Labor's demanding an explanation from the federal government.

The money should have been spent in the 2005/6 budget year.

The shortfall includes 25.5 million dollars allocated for health services in indigenous
communities and 37.4 million for tertiary Abstudy.

An extra 16 million dollars .. promised for employment and economic development programs
.. wasn't spent either.

Labor says the figures show the government failed to spend money on services that would
have made children safer.

Shadow Indigenous Affairs Minister JENNY MACKLIN has called on the government to reveal
details of any missing millions allocated to indigenous programs in 2006-07 as well.

But Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister MAL BROUGH says some allocated money wasn't
spent because organisations slated for funding didn't measure up.

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KEYWORD: INDIGENOUS FUNDS (CANBERRA)

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