Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

Part of this whole process is giving back to individual Australians their right to make decisions, which the previous government took away from them in a particularly unfair and cruel manner. The work that's been done by Minister Rishworth is giving these people back the right to make their own decisions about what they do in their lives and how they spend their money. We could only guess what the final numbers are going to be, and if I could give you a more accurate answer than that I certainly would. The whole purpose of this is giving back to those people some rights to make decisions about their futures, particularly to Indigenous Australians because they represent such a large portion of the people under this scheme. I can't tell exactly what those numbers will be, but we will get some results pretty quickly as the changes roll out. I'll very happily supply those results to you when they become available.