Amanda Rishworth (Kingston, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

What I did speak with a number of organisations about is what support they need to address longstanding issues in the community that have existed for some time.

And I must say, if the member actually got out to Ceduna a bit more often, he might understand that on that day there was a funeral in town and there were a number of people that had come from outside the Ceduna area—indeed, from outside the five different communities surrounding. There were significantly high tensions and grief in the town. So it was a particularly sad day in Ceduna and the surrounding communities for this significant sorry business.

I was also very pleased to be in town to deliver a commitment of $17 million for economic development in the town. This was money that the former government announced and never delivered, and I was welcomed in that town because we are delivering money to those communities.

Honourable members interjecting—

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