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Legislative Council - Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)
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APY Tjukurpa Law and Culture Council of Elders

The Hon. S.G. WADE (14:34): I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation questions on the APY Tjukurpa Law and Culture Council of Elders.

Leave granted.

The Hon. S.G. WADE: Prior to the last state election the Labor Party promised that if elected it would commit $400,000 over four years for the APY Tjukurpa Law and Culture Council of Elders to provide cultural guidance to the APY Executive Board. This support would, the Labor Party wrote at the time, 'keep traditional owners at the centre of decision-making'. Funding for this purpose was confirmed in the state budget last June. On 21 July 2014 the former minister advised a budget estimates committee that 'Annual key performance indicators (financial and non-financial) will be set as part of the four-year funding agreement' with the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Tjukurpa Law and Culture Council of Elders. My questions to the minister are:

1. What key performance indicators (financial and non-financial) have been established as part of the government's four-year funding agreement with the APY Tjukurpa Law and Culture Council of Elders?

2. When was the agreement finalised and how much funding was provided to the council in the second half of 2014, that is, the first six months of the four-year commitment?

3. Has the minister sought, or will the minister be seeking, to modify any of the KPIs as part of his government's efforts to raise standards of accountability and transparency on the APY lands?

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Manufacturing and Innovation, Minister for Automotive Transformation, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation) (14:36): I thank the honourable member for his questions. Funding was committed to the APY law and culture council to strengthen Aboriginal law and culture on the APY lands and it was, as the honourable member has pointed out, an election commitment of this government. This government committed to provide $100,000 a year for four financial years starting from the 2014-15 financial year. I am advised the last payment was made in November last year.

The payment was made to the APY Executive. I am also aware that there have been potential concerns about whether the funding has been used in the most effective and efficient way it could have been, and I have asked this to be considered as part of some of the audits that are being undertaken into financial practices of the APY Executive. I can assure the honourable member that as we move forward with better financial practices the application of law and culture money will be part of that.

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