Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator Nampijinpa Price for the question. I just want to acknowledge the coverage I saw in the paper this morning about the vandalism attacks on your family and just acknowledge that that is completely unacceptable. I just wanted to register that. It is not nice to see. It is not Australian to see things like that happening.

In relation to the question, the NIAA, as Senator Nampijinpa Price knows, runs a range of programs, including through the Indigenous Advancement Strategy. There are a range of programs across health, education, community services, family support services that that agency runs. In addition to that, there are a range of programs that we are currently consulting with First Nations communities around. Those are some of the packages that we announced earlier through the October budget and the budget that we have just had around making sure that we are putting in place new programs that have the support of the local community. I am happy to provide a list of those programs to Senator Nampijinpa Price.

I accept there are significant amounts of public dollars going into this part of government service delivery. It's always important to know and expect that we are getting good value for those public funds, which is why I think some of the outcomes of the audit into that agency by ANAO are important to implement.