Page 1569 - Week 05 - Tuesday, 14 May 2019

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MR BARR: I believe it is.

MR MILLIGAN: Treasurer, what actions have you taken to ensure that the expenditure of public money on the Indigenous bush healing farm has been consistent with the Financial Management Act?

MR BARR: There is no suggestion that it has been otherwise.

MRS DUNNE: My supplementary question to the minister is: Treasurer, what role does treasury have in ensuring that public funds are used for the purposes appropriated for it by the Assembly, and what steps were taken to ensure that the money appropriated for the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm was in compliance with the Financial Management Act?

MR BARR: They are all hypothetical questions.

Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders—Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm

MRS KIKKERT: My question is to the Minister for Health and Wellbeing regarding the Indigenous bush healing farm. Minister, is the usage of the Indigenous bush healing farm consistent with the purpose detailed in the Appropriation Bill (No 2) 2007-2008?

MS FITZHARRIS: Certainly, the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm has been in operation now since around about a year ago. It is, I know, a very welcome addition. It is certainly the case that I have stated in this place that it is our intention for the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm to be a residential facility. Certainly, in this case it did not open as a residential facility, but I stated at that time that it has the capacity, with rooms, to be a residential facility. Work is well underway to ensure that that is the case.

MRS KIKKERT: Minister, what actions have you taken to ensure that the expenditure of public money on the Indigenous bush healing farm has been consistent with the Financial Management Act?

MS FITZHARRIS: Since taking on this portfolio we have seen the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm open. We have seen the fourth program of the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm underway as we speak, with approximately in total 85 clients having received treatment at the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm. I indicated that we would be looking very carefully at the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm once it started operating to ensure that we could make it the best facility that it can be for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.

Mrs Jones: On a point of order, Madam Speaker, the question was about steps that have been taken or actions that have been taken to ensure that the farm is consistent with the Financial Management Act. The minister has not referred in any way to the question that was asked. It is not relevant.


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