The co-chair of the Uluru Statement and a key proponent of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament Pat Anderson was forced by the NT’s corruption watchdog to re-establish a legally-mandated Indigenous advisory board to the Bachelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education which she chairs, however close to a year after agreeing, the organisation will not say what progress has been made.
A review conducted by the Office of the Independent Commissioner Against Corruption into the Batchelor Institute, which began in later September 2021 – which was to look at policy and procedures, “rather than investigate individual matters” – was given to the institute in draft form in mid-2022, and publicly released in February.
The place has been corrupt and broken for decades!
Close it down!
Why 100+ staff need to be ferry’d 98km from Darwin and back again to sit in a empty school monday to friday is beyond me!
Their will be plenty of space for the 20 current students at the big empty CDU building on Smith St!