Senate debates

Thursday, 15 May 2014

Questions without Notice

Budget

2:56 pm

Photo of Lisa SinghLisa Singh (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Shadow Attorney General) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Let us see how we go with this one. I refer to the $9.5 million cut to the Indigenous Languages Support program. Given the Prime Minister has claimed he will be a Prime Minister for Aboriginal affairs, why are the government and this minister ripping funding from a program that preserves and revives Indigenous languages?

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