Linda Reynolds (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I am somewhat saddened in rising to speak on this MPI. Listening to Senator Peris highlighted for me exactly why we have to work so much harder to close the gap. It particularly saddens me that this MPI reads:

The impact of the Abbott Government’s decision to cut half a billion dollars from Indigenous programs in its first Budget.

It saddens me because this is the second time today I have risen to speak about the blatant untruths being told in policy areas of such social importance. The first time was on the higher education system and the blatant untruths that were being told to scare students and those on the crossbenches.

This time it is in relation to the problems and the issues that Senator Peris has just so eloquently discussed.

Senator Lines interjecting—