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APY Executive

The Hon. S.G. WADE (14:37): We are still groping for an answer. I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking questions of the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation about the accountability of the APY Executive Board.

Leave granted.

The Hon. S.G. WADE: On 24 February 2015 the minister informed the council that he had entered into an agreement with the APY Executive that would see the release of a single quarter of the APY's annual state funding but that this agreement was 'subject to very stringent and very specific conditions.' The minister stated that the agreement required 'APY to meet higher standards of accountability and transparency' and that it included a commitment on APY's part to make certain documents available on the APY website, specifically, its annual reports, the minutes of the monthly APY Executive Board meetings and monthly financial reports against APY's approved budget.

Yesterday, in a ministerial statement on the governance and financial management of the APY Executive Board, the minister stated that in recent weeks there had been 'a number of significant improvements in the operation and transparency of the APY Executive Board' and that a second quarter of funding had now been released. However, the APY website still does not carry the required documents, specifically, the organisation's annual report for 2013-14, the minutes of the March and April monthly meetings of the APY Executive Board and any monthly financial reports against APY's approved budget. My questions to the minister are:

1. Why did the minister release second quarter funding to APY when APY had failed to meet the so-called stringent conditions on the first quarter funding?

2. Can the minister assure the council that he has received APY's 2013-14 annual report and sighted the other documents?

3. What action will the minister take to ensure that APY makes the specified documents available on its website and, therefore, satisfies the higher standards of accountability and transparency it agreed to in February when the first quarter funding was released?

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Manufacturing and Innovation, Minister for Automotive Transformation, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation) (14:39): I thank the honourable member for his questions. I am advised that a number of those things that the honourable member refers to as not being on the website are on the website. For those that are not on the website, a process is underway to have them put on the website. I will go back and check, and if that's not the case I will bring back further information for the honourable member.

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