Steve Irons (Swan, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to ask a question of the parliament secretary related to funding, but I will give some background first. It was interesting to listen to the member for Blair asking questions of the parliamentary secretary. His focus was all about money. We know how well they handle money. They are not worried about the outcomes. They are not worried about the health outcomes for Indigenous people. They are not worried about that at all. It is all about money for them. They were never any good at it.

You focused on education, and you talked about safer communities and effects on the ground. I was up at Alice Springs recently for the Indigenous round of the AFL. Sport and Indigenous people go together hand in hand. One of the outcomes that have been achieved up there—it has not been done by money; it has been work done on the ground—was the introduction of police outside liquor stores during the day. That has resulted in a 50 per cent reduction in violence and a 50 per cent reduction in hospital visits. That is an actual positive outcome. They are the sorts of things that they want on the ground. All you guys worry about is throwing money at it—just wasting it. You do not worry about where it is going.

Mr Snowdon interjecting—

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