SkyNews is reporting Fed Gov is giving $655Million - the link below from the Camden Haven Courier is not paywalled I hope it works for HC
Quote [ Sky News host Caleb Bond discusses the $655 million previously held by Canberra now given to Indigenous Northern Territorians to build local communities.
“All this money that was previously tied up in funds that was controlled by the federal government is now in the hands of a corporation up in the Northern Territory that has been set up essentially to invest that money in local Aboriginal populations,” Mr Bond said.]
Dawn of a new era as fund returns to Aboriginal control 4Sep24
https://www.camdencourier.com.au/story/8753321/dawn-of-a-new-era-as-fund-returns-to-aboriginal-control/Essential to read down for many informative quotes -- for example
[Malak Malak woman and board member Joy Cardona.........said there was a critical step the Prime Minister had missed.
"It's really important that we do community development before we do economic development," she said. "Community development in communities is the most important thing, to build our relationships up … to build our spirits, to build our dreamings, to build up culture centres, to build up culture camps, because if we're going to look for the future, we need to pass our knowledge on.
"Aboriginal Investment NT chief executive Elly Patira reiterated that economic development was contingent on all parts of Aboriginal lives thriving."I think one of the other things that many people don't understand is there are culture-based economies that are existing in Aboriginal communities right now," she said. "We really see a huge opportunity to leverage those culture-based economies … we're talking about things like nature repair and carbon abatement.
"We know that there are emerging markets for those sectors and there's huge opportunities to actually make sense of economic development through a cultural lens."]
See how you interpret all that -
