Deal for one-off payment comes after WA spent $270,000 on ads attacking federal ministers
Western Australia has signed a $122m deal with the federal government to fund housing in remote communities.
The deal comes after the state spent $270,000 on attack ads aimed at ministers in Canberra, with the state housing minister, Peter Tinley, accusing the Coalition of abandoning remote Indigenous people, and admitting that the fight saw Indigenous people used as a “political football”.
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