Mal Brough (Longman, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I am just getting some advice on that. You are aware that DEWR is closing the CDEP there because of the low levels of unemployment. When unemployment is under seven per cent in an area, CDEP changes. I am advised that the organisation auspicing the child care no longer wish to continue with that, and they will obviously involve the CDEP. We have offered them other support—in other words, to replace the cross-subsidisation that CDEP was providing. I am unaware as to whether or not they are fully intending to continue that at this point. My adviser tells me that they are not intending to do so at this stage. If that is the case then we will look at it further. There are obviously always opportunities for other organisations to auspice such services. It is not an unusual circumstance in remote or in regional communities to have to find other suppliers. It is something the department is working on at the moment with the local organisation.

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