Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Last week I took the entire cabinet to the Northern Territory. We had ministers in Alice Springs, in Katherine, in remote Northern Territory as well. And I visited a remote community to commit to $4 billion to fix housing in remote communities. That's something that was never done by those opposite, who, when they were in government, in the 2014 budget, ripped money out of it, just like, in their last budget in 2022, they left funding going off a cliff, including in Alice Springs, for community organisations—for organisations that looked after women's safety; for organisations that looked after children. All of the funding stopped on 30 June of that year.

We had to engage and find money, including $250 million, which we have done with our 'A better, safer future for Central Australia' plan. We are delivering—

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