BUDGET FAILS TO HELP TOP END: NT GOVT

27 June 2017

Luke Gosling joined fellow federal Labor MP Warren Snowdon and Senator Malarndirri McCarthy to slam a $16 million decrease in National Partnership for Remote Housing funding to the NT.

"There are no real funding commitments in this budget to glose the gap of indigenous disadvantage. This is a disgrace," they said.

The NT will receive some of the $55.7 million the commonwealth has committed over five years to help improve the job prospects for indigenous Australians across the country.

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