Remote jobs, housing, and closing the gap measures are at the top of the government’s Indigenous affairs agenda, the federal budget has revealed.
In outlining its plans for the year ahead, the budget documents give the clearest indicator yet of the government’s First Nations policy priorities after the resounding defeat of the Indigenous Voice referendum last year. $20 million dollars that was previously set aside to create local and regional Indigenous Voice bodies has officially been slashed.
This will be matched by the NT government. $120 million dollars of that will go towards urgent repairs of existing homes. However, most of this will come from the National Indigenous Australians Agency’s existing funding, meaning there is only about $341 million dollars in new money set aside over the next five years. While jobs and housing were the main budget priorities, there were still several health measures funded in the Indigenous affairs space.
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