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CHIEF MINISTER FOR THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION
Question No 437
Aboriginal Education Programs
MR HUMPHRIES - Asked the Chief Minister on notice on 24 November 1992:
In relation to an increase in spending from $0.184m in 1991-92 to $0.349m in 1992-93 on Aboriginal education through various specific programs (Budget Paper No. 2, page 170) -
(1) What is the reason for the increase.
(2) For what specific programs is the extra funding required.
(3) How many Aboriginal people benefit from existing educational programs.
(4) How many Aboriginal people are estimated to benefit from the extra programs.
MS FOLLETT - The answer to the members question is as follows:
(1) & (2) For 1991-92, total Commonwealth funding received for Aboriginal
Education under the Aboriginal Education Strategic Initiatives Program was
$0.349m. Of this amount:
• $0.184m was transacted though the Consolidated Fund (as shown in
Budget Paper 2); and
• $0.165 was paid directly by the Commonwealth to the ACT Institute of
Technical and Further Education (now the Canberra Institute of
Technology).
For 1992-93, at least a similar level of Commonwealth funding as in 1991-92 ($0.349) is to be provided to the ACT, with all funding to be initially received into the Consolidated Fund and onpassed to agencies as appropriate. The submissions for funding, lodged in the last quarter of 1992, are still under consideration by the Department of Employment, Education and Training. The exact quantum of Commonwealth funding for 1992 (academic year) is yet to be advised.
(3) At the July census 1992 there were 431 Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander students in the ACT government school system.
The Aboriginal Home School Liaison service provided by the Department is available to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.
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