Sky News Australia host Peta Credlin has backed a claim made by Kamahl about funding for Indigenous Australians during his tense interview on The Project.
The Malaysian-born singer appeared on the Network 10 program on Sunday night where he doubled down on hisDuring the live television segment, Kamahl made repeated claims that $40 billion has been spent on Indigenous programs every year.
After a heated back and forth Kamahl conceded he"made a mistake" on the figure, but reiterated he still planned to vote No in the upcoming referendum. "The Project hosts, well, they did a good job of trying to verbal him into thinking that his macro $40 billion budget number was somehow related to Canberra's National Indigenous Agency," she said on Credlin. Credlin believed the singer was referring to overall budget numbers from all state and territory governments across the country.
She pointed to an excerpt of the document which states that the total direct government expenditure on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians was roughly $33.4 billion in 2015-2016.
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