Peter Dutton fails to find support for audit of government’s Indigenous spending

Australia will repeat the mistakes of the past if government Indigenous expenditure is not audited, says opposition leader

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The Coalition’s push for an audit of government spending on Indigenous Australians is set to fail, with Labor, the Greens and senator David Pocock opposed.

Even the independent senator, Lidia Thorpe, who has backed a more limited review of the “governance processes of organisations that are meant to represent” First Nations people, has distanced herself from the Coalition’s call for a broader review of all spending.

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