Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Community Services) Share this | Hansard source

We are currently engaged in discussions with a number of spatial groups in areas that we think may fit the bill. You may well be aware—and this is typical, I suppose—that we would be looking at building a boarding school on the Tiwi Islands. That would meet a spatial catchment of people who have difficulty because of the travel arrangements between Tiwi and Darwin, so they have had to go to school outside of that area. Clearly north-east Arnhem Land is a particular catchment, and we will be discussing the location of a school with the residents of that area. We will be looking at the notional application of a location on the basis of a catchment, on the basis of need and on the basis of the current location of boarding schools. Those negotiations and discussions are ongoing.