Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you again for your contribution to the government's commitments in this area, Senator Dodson. They include, in the October budget: $54 million for 500 First Nations health workers and practitioners; $164 million for vital health infrastructure; $33 million to make early education more accessible; $100 million to improve remote housing, particularly in the Northern Territory homelands; and, importantly—and I know Senator Dodson has spoken about this—$81 million in up to 30 community-led justice reinvestment initiatives to seek to divert young people from the criminal justice system and to reduce crime.

But we must do more, and I think the compelling message from this report is why it is so important for First Nations people to be heard and to be part of designing and delivering the solutions to this disadvantage. (Time expired)