Page 258 - Week 01 - Thursday, 14 February 2019
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The NEO support program, as it is now known, offers direct financial support to culturally specific and appropriate services for ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community organisations. The program aims to: facilitate community-controlled leadership to develop culturally appropriate social services; embed culture; harness existing community capacity and develop new emerging leaders; implement good governance; establish trusting partnerships; and build and/or use a community development approach in service delivery.
The program is a demonstration of the government’s commitment to self-determination. We know that self-determination is critical in advancing equitable outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Canberrans. The NEO support program is also a key initiative supporting the ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander agreement 2015-18.
The NEO program underwent a review after the first round was unsuccessful and it was redesigned and reopened to applications fairly recently. This program in its redesign will absolutely support key focus areas of the agreement, including employment and economic independence, connecting the community, cultural identity, and education and leadership.
The most recent NEO grants round closed recently under the new guidelines. I am looking forward to learning about how it went and how it can be further improved, and to continuing to work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses and community organisations to build a stronger community in the ACT.
Arts—event funding
MRS KIKKERT: My question is to the Minister for the Arts and Cultural Events. Minister, in your answer to question on notice 2113 you said that from the 2019 ACT events fund, a total allocation of $274,963 has been made in the main round. Allocations have been made to events in Kurrajong, Murrumbidgee, Yerrabi and even events located in New South Wales. Minister, the total allocation for events in Brindabella and Ginninderra is zero dollars. How many applications for events based in Brindabella and Ginninderra were received for the government’s event fund for 2019?
MR RAMSAY: I will take that question on notice.
MRS KIKKERT: Minister why did not one event in Brindabella or Ginninderra receive any funding from the government’s events fund for 2019?
MR RAMSAY: The process for the assessment of the events fund is on the quality of the applications themselves. The assessments were made purely on the basis of the quality of the events. I will continue to look into further ways of considering it in the future and whether there may be a curated approach and closer attention to geographic distribution.
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