Published: November 15, 2018
Documents show Nigel Scullion signed off on grants so cattle and fishing groups would be ‘better informed’
The Indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, signed off on grants of almost $460,000 to fishing and cattle grazier groups in the NT, using funds earmarked for addressing Indigenous disadvantage, even though the groups had not applied for them.
In all three cases, the minister approved grants from the Indigenous Advancement Strategy (IAS) because “there is a clear need for the stakeholder group to be better informed on Aboriginal issues in the NT”.
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