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Calls for an inquiry into government's Indigenousspending

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Callsfor an inquiry into government's Indigenous spending (msn.com)

Shadow Indigenous Affairs Minister Jacinta Price has called for aninquiry into the government's Indigenous spending.

Ms Price questioned where the Albanese government's $250 million thatthey put last year to support the crisis in central Australia was invested.

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"Very little seems to have been done," Ms Price told Sky NewsAustralia.

"Nothing has been done in terms of supporting the school that takescare of our most marginalised kids.

"What I'm calling for and what I continue to call for is an inquiryinto the way money is being spent.

"We have a massive Aboriginal industry that is being built on thebacks of the misery of our most marginalised.

"We have a Closing the Gap report that comes out every year thatreports failings."

It beggars the imagination how huge sums of money can go missing oncethe govt gets their hands on it via taxpayers' hard earned.

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What a novel idea, auditing government spending, perhaps equatingspending to outcomes, perhaps stopping waste, Let's look at Albaneseslatest announcement of 3000 jobs. basic accounting, $707 million divided by3,000 jobs = $235,666 dollars per job. Will the taxpayer or theIndigenous community get $235,666 value out of each of these Indigenous jobsthat the government is going to supply over the next 10 years. Iactually think that the individual Indigenous person would get not get anywherenear that amount, most of the $707 million will be absorbed in overheads, suchas advertising, travelling, training, planning committees, studies, and otherabsolutely necessary incidentals.