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

I certainly would not agree with the characterisation that the funds are used to actually start unscrabbling the madness that we have seen in this area. On any measure it has not delivered any outcomes. So I do not think it is a cost at all. I think it is a very sensible well considered investment that ensures that our First Australians get access to exactly the same services that really change things and to ensure that the services on the ground are actually coordinated through the highest office in the land.

Our Prime Minister, I am very proud to say, said he is going to be also the Prime Minister for Aboriginal and Islander Affairs. And when he said that he meant that in the sense that he is ensuring structurally that he is also responsible for that. And not only being responsible in that sense, he has also shown a lot of leadership in ensuring that we have a much better rationale, and we are already getting much better results.