The federal government has been attacked for failing to listen to regional and local First Nations voices after backtracking on its funding commitment for an Aboriginal school in the Northern Territory which could have helped battle the region’s growing youth crime crisis.
, under which $40 million would be dedicated to improving educational outcomes for grassroots communities.
But just four months on, the government seems to have backflipped on its pledge, with Yipirinya now only receiving $329,000 in funding, The Daily Telegraph revealed. Senator Sarah Henderson said the government had turned their backs on the needs of remote Indigenous communities. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman
“ was to go to local schools, including schools like Yipirinya which has had some enormous challenges with many disengaged and disadvantaged.”
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