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INDIGENOUS EDUCATION (TARGETED ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT (2007 BUDGET MEASURES) BILL 2007

                                 2004-2005-2006-2007




         THE PARLIAMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA




                           HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES




INDIGENOUS EDUCATION (TARGETED ASSISTANCE) AMENDMENT (2007
                BUDGET MEASURES) BILL 2007




                          EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM




(Circulated by authority of the Minister for Education, Science and Training the Hon Julie
                                       Bishop MP)
       INDIGENOUS EDUCATION (TARGETED ASSISTANCE)
        AMENDMENT (2007 BUDGET MEASURES) BILL 2007

                                          OUTLINE

The purpose of the Bill is to amend the Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Act 2000 to
appropriate additional funding to facilitate the provision of improving opportunities for
Indigenous students through the expansion of the Indigenous Youth Mobility Programme, the
expansion of the Indigenous Youth Leadership Programme, the provision of infrastructure
funding for boarding school facilities and where government and non-government providers
agree, the conversion of Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) programme
places into ongoing jobs in the education sector.



                                  FINANCIAL IMPACT
The Bill will increase the appropriation under section 14A of the Indigenous Education
(Targeted Assistance) Act 2000 by a net $26.1 million over the 2007 and 2008 calendar years (in
initial 2005 prices). This results in:

   ª   an increase of $2.6 million for the expansion of the Indigenous Youth Mobility
       Programme;
   ª   an increase of $4.0 million for the expansion of the Indigenous Youth Leadership
       Programme;
   ª   $14.1 million being used for the provision of infrastructure funding to enable boarding
       schools catering for significant cohorts of Indigenous students to repair and replace aged
       and deteriorating facilities; and
   ª   $5.3 million being used to convert Community Development Employment Projects
       programme places into ongoing jobs in the education sector.

These amounts are subject to supplementation as prescribed in the Act.
     INDIGENOUS EDUCATION (TARGETED ASSISTANCE)
      AMENDMENT (2007 BUDGET MEASURES) BILL 2007

                                    NOTES ON CLAUSES


Clause 1 - Short title
Provides for the Act to be cited as the Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Amendment
(2007 Budget Measures) Act 2007.


Clause 2 - Commencement
Provides for the Act to commence on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.


Clause 3 - Schedule(s)
Provides that each Act that is specified in a Schedule is amended or repealed as set out in the
applicable items in the Schedule and that any other item in a Schedule has effect according to its
terms.
Schedule 1 - Amendments

Indigenous Education (Targeted Assistance) Act 2000


Items 1 and 2 Subsection 14A(1) (table items 3 and 4)
Item 1 and 2 amend the table in subsection 14A(1) of the Indigenous Education (Targeted
Assistance) Act 2000 (which sets out appropriations for non-ABSTUDY payments for the 2005-
2008 quadrennium) to provide funding for the 2007-08 Budget measures described in the
Outline to this memorandum.

Item 1 provides that the appropriation set out in table item 3 (which provides appropriations for
the period 1 January 2007 to 30 June 2008) is increased from "$246,226,000" to
"$259,188,000".

Item 2 provides that the appropriation set out in table item 4 (which provides appropriations for
the period 1 January 2008 to 30 June 2009) is increased from "$246,643,000" to
"$259,736,000".