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

In the Queensland context, we have 387 houses that didn't meet the formula. That's why the Labor Party—and there's no mischief in this—didn't put a population growth indicator in that. We should have, at the end of 10 years, built so many houses for so many people in the population, but we're 387 houses short. Our deal with the Queensland government is that we'll pay for half of the houses and they'll have to pay for the 57 houses in the future from NAHA. It's a solid arrangement that I'm sure will be accepted. It has certainly been accepted in South Australia. We're well and truly ahead in our negotiations with Western Australia and Queensland. Any suggestion that there are no further funds is absolutely spurious and mischievous.