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Article: Qld: Indigenous living conditions the first focus of budget
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- June 19, 2001
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AAP General News (Australia)
06-19-2001
Qld: Indigenous living conditions the first focus of budget
BRISBANE, June 19 AAP - Living conditions in Queensland's remote indigenous communities
will be targeted this year with a jump of almost 18 per cent in spending from the state
budget.
A large slice of the $107 million funding package will compensate those indigenous
people still owed award wages after years of unpaid labour.
But $7 million is to be used to provide serviced housing for seven Aboriginal communities
and water, sewerage and drainage in 15 communities in the Torres Strait.
The funding in the Torres Strait is part of a $15.3 million ...