Tag Archives: Jenny Macklin

Wasted millions

By Tracker, April 5, 2013
Indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin poses with Aboriginal dancers from Arnhem Land Benny (left) and David Wilford in Canberra on April 3, 2009 at the ceremony to endorse the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. (APA IMAGE/ALAN PORRITT).

NATIONAL: Northern Territory Senator Nigel Scullion last month accused Indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin of wasting $150 million on Labor’s Alice Springs Transformation Plan, slamming her for letting down residents of the town camps. But CHIRS GRAHAM reports that both sides of politics have let town campers down.

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Basics Cards for parts of WA Pilbara

By Tracker, April 5, 2013
The BasicsCard, used to manage quarantined welfare payments for those living under the NT intervention. Compulsory income management will be rolled out into five disadvantaged centres around Australia from next year.

NATIONAL: The federal government has expanded an income management scheme to Aboriginal communities in the desert region near Western Australia’s border.

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The man who stands to be minister

By Tracker, April 3, 2013
Opposition Indigenous affairs spokesperson Nigel Scullion (FILE PHOTO)

NATIONAL: Meet the man who stands to become the next Federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs.

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NT govt tells Macklin no to BDR

By Tracker, February 27, 2013
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NORTHERN TERRITORY: The Northern Territory is rebuffing overtures from the federal government to bring back the Banned Drinkers Register (BDR).

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Bring back NT drink register: Macklin

By Tracker, February 27, 2013
Indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin.

NORTHERN TERRITORY: The federal government wants the Northern Territory to bring back its Banned Drinkers Register (BDR), but has stopped short of threatening to force the scheme’s re-adoption.

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Macklin rejects new land council proposal

By Tracker, February 15, 2013
Indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin.

NATIONAL: Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin is rejecting an application from Aboriginal groups seeking to create their own breakaway land council.

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Income management a failure: report

By Tracker, November 30, 2012
The BasicsCard, used to manage quarantined welfare payments for those living under the NT intervention. Compulsory income management will be rolled out into five disadvantaged centres around Australia from next year.

NATIONAL: Income management is a disempowering control measure and there is little evidence it is helping people in the Northern Territory manage their money, an independent evaluation has found.

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Act of Recognition introduced to lower house

By Amy McQuire, November 28, 2012
Indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin.

NATIONAL: The Gillard government has introduced its Act of Recognition bill, designed to replace the promised referendum into constitutional reform in the interim, which could be delayed for at least the next two years.

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Act of Recognition introduced to Parliament

By Tracker, November 28, 2012
Indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin.

NATIONAL: The Gillard government has introduced legislation to put through an Act of Recognition.

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EVIDENTLY: Rudd’s quiet revolution gets noisier

By Jon Altman, November 26, 2012
In December 2007, the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) agreed to targets to close the gap in Indigenous life expectancy. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (centre) addresses a press conference at the COAG meeting as state Premiers (L-R:) Morris Iemma (NSW), John Brumby (Victoria) and Anna Bligh (Queensland) look on at Government House in Melbourne. Today, the intergovernmental consensus has broken down as conservative governments have been elected in the states and territories. (AAP Image/Julian Smith)

NATIONAL: Intergovernmental consensus on Indigenous affairs is breaking down after the election of conservative state and territory governments, writes PROF JON ALTMAN*.

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