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Remote councils threaten to disrupt $2.6b federal remote jobs program

Australian Broadcasting Corporation 1 min read 8 hours ago


Three Aboriginal Northern Territory councils say they will cancel leases critical to the rollout of the federal government's new jobs program after they claim they were overlooked for funding because they were "not Aboriginal enough".
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