It is a fact that since you've been the Aboriginal Affairs Minister and since the Liberals have been in government, there have been no land returns, there has been no improvement in heritage protections, which are appalling for Aboriginal heritage, there are still Aboriginal children languishing in Ashley Youth Detention with no prospect of leaving.
We have 20 minutes to talk about multicultural communities, which is farcical to be honest.
Yesterday in minister Street's hearing we heard that the community support levy has $1.23 million unspent in the bank.
You just mentioned indexation, minister. I have some questions on that because community services are vitally important and provide essential services.
I'll just go back to the issue around bullying and harassment in councils. It obviously seems to be on the increase both between elected members, staff to elected members and the general public.
There was considerable concern during the local government reform process about planning powers being stripped from local councils.
Minister, I just wanted to ask a few questions around local government reform. There have been significant concerns around the lack of progress on local government reform in the sector and in the community over many years.
Minister, the government's Fiscal Strategy includes a target of greater than 37 per cent of total general government sector own‑source revenue as a percentage of total expenditure.
One of the many recommendations from Saul Eslake's independent review of the state's finances was to increase the rate of mining levies.
We had the information from community advocates earlier in the week, I think it was around $1.4 billion being lost to pokies since the 2018 election.
