‘Excuses don’t cut it’: Figures reveal remote housing shortfall across Northern Territory

By Christopher Walsh
ABC News

Key points:

• Senator Nigel Scullion calls on the NT Government to be “less gammon” about their approach to remote housing in NT
• NT Government figures show it has spent far less than its projected annual spend, a situation it blames it on backlog
• NT Housing Minister Gerry McCarthy has blasted support of $300,000 to the Central Land Council for housing as “tokenistic”