Published: December 23, 2018
Exclusive: Ousted Aboriginal affairs minister says Northern Territory governments use money meant for people in the bush to prop up Darwin
The sacked Northern Territory Aboriginal affairs minister Ken Vowles has accused his former colleagues of twice “ripping off” Indigenous people – squandering money earmarked for the bush, then using remote disadvantage to plead for a budget bailout.
“We’re going to say we need [more money] because we have remote Aboriginal communities, then we’ll spend it on a water park,” Vowles told Guardian Australia.
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