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 Education

o Community Safety

o Health

o 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 – SEAM

o Tackling alcohol abuse

o Community safety

o Food security

o 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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