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A Ten Year Commitment
WELCOME
Purpose of this presentation
To outline Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory package:
• Steps leading up to August 2012 sunset on Northern Territory National Emergency Response legislation
• Programs and services – 2012 Budget measures• Proposed legislation and policies.
• Next Steps in Closing the Gap in the NT
www.indigenous.gov.au/strongerfutures
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WHY STRONGER FUTURES?
• Current funding ending June 2012; NTER legislation ending August 2012
• Stronger Futures package responds to the Stronger Futures 2009 and 2011 consultations, and evidence from NTER evaluation
• More needs to be done to Close the Gap in the NT
• People could have their say in consultations and on legislation proposal
STRONGER FUTURES PACKAGE
$3.4 billion over ten years• Long-term commitment to work with Aboriginal people in NT
• Focus on providing additional employment opportunities for
Aboriginal people in remote communities
• Ten-year funding for Stronger Futures in 2012 Budget
• Supporting legislation currently before Parliament
• National Partnership Agreement being negotiated with NT
Government
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STRONGER FUTURES:PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
• Continued support for core services in: o Children and Families o Educationo Community Safety o Healtho Housing and Essential Services o Engagement and Coordination
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STRONGER FUTURES:LEGISLATION
• Still before Parliament – not yet law
• Repeals NTER legislation o RDA applies
• Relates to: o School Enrolment and Attendance Measure – SEAMo Tackling alcohol abuseo Community safetyo Food securityo Land reform
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CHILDREN AND FAMILIES$442.4 million over ten years
Communities for Children• 19 Communities for Children sites (up from 4)
Children’s safety, early childhood services• 2 mobile child-protection teams (25 staff)
• More Remote Aboriginal Family and Community Workers
• Up to 23 Intensive Family Support Services
• Existing early-childhood services continuing
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Women, men and young people• Sixteen women’s safe houses
• Redesigned men’s services
• Youth in Communities services
• All new services to be part of Communities for Children
arrangements (once in place)
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
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Better schooling outcomes and encouraging school attendance
• 200 extra teaching positions to continue
• School Nutrition Program
SFNT legislation – new SEAM• School Enrolment and Attendance Measure (SEAM) improved and
extended
• More support for parents, stronger links with schools
• Phased in from July 2012 (Subject to legislation)
• Aligns with NT Government’s Every Child Every Day strategy
EDUCATION$583.4 million over ten years
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Policing• Maintaining extra remote police numbers (60) and Themis stations (18)
• Special police services - Substance Abuse Intelligence Desks and Dog
Operations Units – disrupting trafficking, NT Child Abuse Task Force,
National Indigenous Violence and Child Abuse Intelligence Task Force
(Australian Crime Commission)
Night patrols, legal assistance• 80 night patrols
• Supplementary funding for legal aid services
Prohibited material and bail and sentencing provisions
COMMUNITY SAFETY$619.3 million over ten years
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SFNT legislationAlcohol management• Existing alcohol restrictions to continue – with Alcohol
Management Plans as a community-based alternative to restrictions
SFNT legislationHelping problem drinkers• Income management for people with serious alcohol and/or
drug problems
Signs • More respectful signs; unnecessary signs removed
TACKLING ALCOHOL ABUSE$75.6 million over ten years
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• More and better primary health careo 250 staff in 80 clinics
o Remote Area Health Corps
• More alcohol treatment in communities with AMPso 20 new staff in up to 20 sites
• Mobile Outreach Service Plus
• Four new mental health services
Children’s health• Continued preventive and specialist services for children
• Ear and Dental health
HEALTH$713.5 million over ten years
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SFNT legislation• Continuation of community stores licensing
• All stores outside major NT centres in scope of licensing
• More flexible licensing and compliance conditions
FOOD SECURITY$40.9 million over ten years
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Housing: $283.5 million over six years• On top of $1.7bn through National Partnership Agreement
on Remote Indigenous Housing
Essential services in outstations: $221 million over ten
years o $206 million Australian Government; $15 million NT Government
SFNT legislation• Compulsory 5-year leases to end no later than August 2012
HOUSING AND OUTSTATIONS
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LAND REFORM
• $19 million jobs package for NT, announced November 2011
• Local Indigenous workforce to be a focus for all SFNT
measures
JOBS
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ALICE SPRINGS
$13.7 million over two years• Continued investment in Alice Springs Transformation Plan
$427.4 million over ten years
• Improve how governments and communities work together
• Indigenous Engagement Officers in 54 communities
• Government Engagement Coordinators
• Regional approach, better coverage of NT
• Governance and leadership development
• Support for NT Aboriginal Interpreter Service
ENGAGEMENT AND COORDINATION
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NEXT STEPS
• Significant and long-term commitment by the Government towards closing the gap in the NT
• Government working differently with communities in the future
• Government being able to work more closely with Aboriginal people
• Providing additional employment opportunities for Aboriginal people
• National Partnership Agreement being negotiated with NT Government
• www.indigenous.gov.au/strongerfutures
• Indigenous Budget Statement – 2012-13 Budget
• Stronger Futures Policy Statement (November 2011)o Relates to legislation
FURTHER INFORMATION
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