FRIDAY MAY 14 2021 NEWS 13 Lawler to No apology from Greens senator after blunder question Canberra EXCLUSIVE THOMAS MORGAN Uibo waits NT Infrastructure Minister says she will con- front Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack after a nearly non-existent spend on roads in Tuesday’s budget. on Thorpe Funding from the federal budget for NT infrastructure THOMAS MORGAN supposedly made toward the federal will not be spent for at least Attorney-General. three years, despite headline A GREENS senator is yet to apologise Neither the federal Attorney-Gen- announcements from the fed- for seemingly calling the NT’s Abor- eral nor Ms Uibo are eral government claiming iginal, female Attorney-General a men, and Ms Uibo was led to believe $150m would be splashed. white man. the comments were aimed at her Budget papers show only Indigenous senator when she took the issue head-on in a $4m of that will be spent in fi- made the baffling comments on Tues- speech on Wednesday night. nancial year 2024-25, with the day night, which A-G Selena Uibo be- “Senator Thorpe, the Northern $319m to be spent some un- lieved were directed at her. Territory Attorney-General is not a specified time beyond then. “I do hope the Attorney-General – white man,” Ms Uibo said. Ms Lawler yesterday told given he probably didn’t read the royal “I am an Aboriginal woman, with the NT News she would con- commission recommendations – lis- ancestral lands in the Groote Archi- front the Nationals leader over tens to these experts. Hopefully, pelago and Numbulwar regions of the the poor result in coming days. they’re white – and, you know, white is Northern Territory.” Ms Uibo deliver- “I will be writing to the right in this place,” Ms Thorpe said in ed a speech to parliament yesterday Deputy Prime Minister asking the Senate. entirely in Eastside Kriol and Wubuy that funding be brought for- The NT News understands Ms language. She talked about the im- ward, because the Territory is Thorpe has still not reached out to the portance of translation services for gearing up to deliver more Attorney-General, who is an Aborigi- local Aboriginal communities amid major road projects, such as nal woman, since making the com- the COVID-19 pandemic. the Carpentaria Highway, to ments. It’s understood Ms Thorpe’s Opposition Leader be the comeback capital,” Ms office believed Ms Uibo had misun- said the Greens were “completely out Lawler said. Attorney-General Selena Uibo at Parliament House. Picture: Che Chorley derstood the comments, that were of touch”.

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