Billions of Canberra dollars have gone into Aboriginal corporations yet the little kids such as Kumanjayi Little Baby still get murdered. Pic NT News

Jacinta’s five year old niece allegedly was murdered by a local man at Alice Springs.

From NT Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price

I want to tell you about my niece.

Her name is Kumanjayi Little Baby. She was five years old.

Close-up portrait of a woman smiling, with long wavy hair and wearing a white jacket over a black top, set against a blurred natural background.

On Anzac Day this year, she went missing from the Old Timers town camp in Alice Springs. 

Five days later, she was found dead. 

The night she vanished, Kumanjayi had been put to bed on a mattress on the living room floor. Surrounded by empty Jim Beam bottles. In a house where the doors didn’t lock.

That is what her grandfather showed the country last week.

He said it was “a really nasty place for her to live”.

He’s not wrong.

And here’s what makes it worse.

Tangentyere – the Aboriginal corporation paid to look after that town camp – has received more than $70 million in federal grants since 2022.

That figure came out at Senate estimates this week. I read it into the record. Grant after grant after grant:

  • $11.2 million for the Central Australian Youth Link-Up Service
  • $9.4 million for capital works
  • $8.6 million under the Access to Education program
  • $2.9 million for Youth Employment Pathways
  • $1.6 million for playgroups
  • $842,000 for afterhours youth services
  • $55,000 for “play therapy”

There’s more. A lot more.

And on March 16 this year – six weeks before Kumanjayi went missing – the National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA) wrote another cheque for $841,500.

For “Afterhours Town Camp Youth Services”.

Six weeks before she vanished.

After hours.

From the town camp.

So where did the money go?

When I asked NIAA how much Tangentyere actually receives from the Commonwealth all up, the chief executive told me it would be “very difficult” to collate.

I was told to direct my questions to other departments. They could give me a “fulsome account”.

A fulsome account.

A little girl is dead on a mattress, and Canberra can’t even add up what it’s spent.

This is what the Indigenous affairs industry looks like from up close.

Tens of millions of taxpayer dollars flowing year after year. Programs with grand names. Bureaucrats who insist child protection is largely a Territory issue and head home for the night.

You and I both know this isn’t working.

It hasn’t worked for years. It hasn’t worked despite billions of dollars poured into it. And it won’t ever work as long as Canberra keeps measuring dollars paid in grants instead of keeping children safe.

The truth is plain.

Race-based programs don’t keep children safe. Houses with doors that lock do.

I am not going to stop asking the questions until we have answers.

Until every grant is accounted for.

Until the children in those camps have what your kids and mine have always had – a roof, a lock, a safe place to sleep.

That is what REAL solutions look like.

I’ll keep fighting for them. From the floor of the Senate. From Alice Springs. From every camp I can walk into.

Thank you for standing with me.#

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  1. This is an example of where the money goes : Mona Mona was at one time a 7 Day Adventist mission station from 1913-1962 north of Kuranda FNQ , when they got the flick because the government wanted to build a dam and sent many of those living there everywhere else like Palm Island ; it became self rule by the Djabuganjdji mob but from that time on other people from other tribal groups moved to there to live so when the government funded new housing for everyone the woman in charge of Mona Mona spent all the money building new Qld style homes with all modern conveniences for herself and her family members leaving nothing for the rest of the population who continued to living it rough in the long grass .

  2. In about 1990 I saw clean cut and respectable blackfellas withdrawing very large sums of money from their bank accounts at their settlement on Cape York Peninsula where I delivered freight and jokingly I asked them if they were heading to the Casino and they replied that they were and were flying down to Townsville that afternoon .

  3. I knew a lady in Cairns, around forty years ago, who had a dossier “this thick” on the bloke running the Yarrabah Mission, as who was going to “get him” one day.

    He lived miles from the mission on the road to Yarrabah, had a two story double-garaged house and a coupel of new cars, and was obviously rorting the system for himself and his family.
    And he is not the only one I have heard of, even down here in Victoria.
    Jacinta needs to ask where the audits are (never been done!), as I have been told by a Tony Ryan, who posts here sometimes, that the Blackfella organisations staff partied it all up, bought themselves swish cars, and the rest. Same goes for Jase, the gold miner west of Cooktown, who told me the Blackfella quango crew in that region don’t even line in the patch they’re responsible for, and drive around in $100k Rams 4WDs and ride Harley -Davidsons, and “stuff” the people they’re responsible for.
    Is this what “practicing culture” really means?
    On the back of Gil May’s book about the Blackfellas, Warren Mundine says that ne trillion has gone into aboriginal advancement, to no effect.
    Nampijinpa is a late arrival on that score, but better late than never.
    And I’d like to see what Puffin’ Billy has done over all these years?
    It would be interesting to find out?

  4. We live under Piracy Law…I mean Administrative Law… I mean Corporate Law… I mean Contract Law…I mean Law of Sea ( we do live on the land right?)…I mean Law of the Holy See (The Vatican)…I do mean Talmudic Law and I can tell you right now, that is what is also called Satan’s Law (You don’t believe me? LOOK IT UP!).

    When you live in a country/world where crimes against humanity, treason, sedition are no longer crimes, then what is wrong? The justice system is what is wrong, it doesn’t exist anymore. It has been usurped by the criminals themselves. Same with the corporate system of politics, it is all theatre and gimmicks, with complicity of the ‘state’ media (which has never once talked about any of the treason, not once, not ever).

    Some posters cry ‘you whinge and whine but offer no solutions’…I’ve been doing it for years. As Pat says, the whole friggen system needs to be burned to the friggen ground!

    I no longer want a ‘Government’…Govern=control, ‘ment’ is latin for mind…control mind…mind control. That is no accident, they are not ‘authority’, as they have led us to believe…you are…I am!

    Return to common law is paramount. Also called ‘Law of the land (world) and soil (country/continent) jurisdiction’…Law of the Land…Natural Law…God’s Law too! Isn’t that odd? The Law ursurped on us all generations ago was called ‘God’s Law’, for a law (of the sea?) system described as ‘Satan’s Law’.

    Next step is dump ‘government’ entirely for a different, more simple system. I’ve heard it called a ‘Protectorate’. I like it. The name. Anyone who serves in such a system has two primary roles, whether it is politics, judiciary, military, public service, law enforcement…whatever you can think of that has responsibility.
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    Those two roles are to 1- protect the INALIENABLE RIGHTS of Australians and 2- To protect the assets of all Australians. This includes our resources in the ground, cheques in the mail every month for every Australian (Like Alaska)
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    Any action deemed to violate those two primary roles will see the culprit hanged for treason 5 mins after conviction, where the evidence ( in a common law court) is deemed overwhelming, ruling out any chance of appeal.

    You got better?

  5. Sending my condolences to Jacinta for the loss of her niece 💔 It’s heartbreaking to hear. All our taxpayer money still being wasted for “money laundering” politicians. Indigenous leader & politician Warren Mundine will have something to say about this! They’re both strong spokespersons for Indigenous affairs!

  6. Thank you Jacinta
    You are a true heroic Australian standing for the innocent. Please ignore the evil detractors and know there are many many Australians who support you. I am so sorry for the loss of your niece.

  7. Keep on nagging – maybe one day someone will listen. So much money wasted. Where has it all been spent? Too many so-called advisors living the high life in cities on exorbitant salaries with no idea of what is happening.

  8. I know where the money has gone. It has gone just like the same in nearly every other country on the planet, into the pockets & bank accounts of thousands of crooked bent dishonest politicians & their contacts . It is the same everywhere. Eg By now everyone here should know the news from da last 6 months or so that Blackrock is bankrupt just like every single country & most companies on da planet. All of this squandered at da expense of the poor people who mostly got nothing except dangerous jabs by Bill Gates & a death wish from their evil governments. Several millions of peoples globally have made good use of government & private funds for their own selfish benefits & to hell with the rest of the peoples. Here in aussieland it is the same cos they do it & think they are getting away scot-free, well they will meet the truth after this life & they are far from free.

  9. You will find the money in the pockets of the corporate aborigines, Jacinta. There are many who claim their native DNA, no matter how low the percentage, just to ride this money train.
    We acknowledge the many wrongs done in the past, but these people weaponise “guilt” as a distraction to being questioned about where the millions are going, while they treat their own in the manner of which they accuse others.
    Don’t stop till you get answers!

  10. Jacinta, our hearts bleed for you, and your family for Kumanjayi Little Baby’s passing, So sad, so avoidable!
    Millions spent, how and where no one Knows? Or, do Not want to know more likely!
    Taxpayers Aboriginal Affairs Industry monies have a bad habit of being misappropriated for decades
    Can the Federal Government sort it out, or just Tax more to cover these criminal thefts?

  11. So what you should be doing is exposing the accounts that have benefited from these multi million dollar grants. There is no excuse in todays electronic accounting other than of fear in naming names.

  12. Well folks,
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    Jacinta said – “… It hasn’t worked for years…”
    .
    Yeah it has, it’s all been going swimmingly well.
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    And Jacinta said – “… It hasn’t worked despite billions of dollars poured into it…”
    .
    But that’s the whole point, it IS working just the way they want, with all those BILLIONS of dollars pouring into it and being spirited away into real estate portfolios and fast cars and luxurious lifestyles and overseas bank accounts.
    .
    Kudos to Jacinta Price, God bless and protect her for being a solitary voice of conscience and sanity, but you CANNOT “fix” what’s irreparably broken, you cannot “fix” a multi-billion dollar thoroughly institutionalised and utterly entrenched BLAME GAME EXTORTION RACKET.
    .
    This is where EVERYTHING has to be DEMOLISHED and rebuilt from the ground UP. This is where the WHOLE BLOODY FOREIGN-OWNED CORPORATE PIRACY that masquerades as our “government” has to be broken into a thousand pieces and burnt to the ground, the proverbial RAT-INFESTED IRRETRIEVABLY CORRUPTED LUCIFERIAN CHAFF that has filled our grain silo to OVERFLOWING.
    .
    And this is where sturdy rope and lamp posts will come in so very very handy. Lots and lots of them.
    .
    Patience, children, just another half decade, just a few more years for enough Useless Eaters to have nothing left to lose and Mr. Rope & Mr. Lamp Post to answer the Fat Lady’s call. Just like Nepal, folks, only better, because we’ve got so many thousands more low-life Treasonous Australia-hating mongrel arsehole bastards to send back home to their Sugar Daddy in Hell.

  13. The solution is a completely new government with mostly new laws, and Jacinta Price as Minister of Aboriginal affairs, including all related expenditure.

  14. As Riccardo stated clearly placing the indigenous elders on notice, step up & clean up this mess. Last chance before we do & we know what that means to anyone harming children. 💀🕷️

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