Kate Ellis (Adelaide, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Youth and Sport) Share this | Hansard source

I am answering a question that the member for Macarthur asked. Also, $4.2 million will go to Kids Alive. The $8 million which will go towards the water safety initiative will go to a number of different organisations such as Surf Life Saving Australia, the Royal Life Saving Society Australia, Auswim and the Kids Alive initiative. I am happy to speak to the member for Macarthur about how the program that he mentioned in particular, which he came across in the Northern Territory, is being funded. It may have been the case that we have been funding these organisations, they then pick the programs which best line up with what they are trying to achieve through the water safety initiative and they fund them themselves. I am happy to speak further with you about that. We have now put in place funding to ensure that the government’s total contribution to water and snow safety over the next four years equals $33 million.

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