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

Another anonymous source deep in the department. I completely reject that one of my very hard-working staff would find the time to ring those on the other side and suggest that it is all a terrible mess and our quiet reform is going nowhere. I can tell you right now what Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are telling me. They are saying, 'Thank you very much, Mr Abbott, for the reforms getting our kids back to school.' Instead of going backwards in the Northern Territory we are going forward with an increase of 17 per cent of children going to school under this government who were not going to school under your government. I completely reject any inference that we are somehow in disarray. We are carefully and methodically ensuring that the lives of our first Australians are much better than they ever were under that lot on the other side.