Prof Jon Altman is a research professor at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Melbourne and an emeritus professor at the Australian National University in Canberra. He has also worked in Aboriginal policy over the past three decades and is one of our foremost experts on Indigenous policy.
He joined Amy McQuire to discuss the recent budget and its repercussions for Aboriginal affairs, as well as the history of the Aboriginal Benefits Account, which he says has turned into a ministerial slush fund, when it was originally regarded as a “progressive institution for Aboriginal economic empowerment and development”.
For more information on the ABA, check out Prof Altman’s recent article in New Matilda, which can be found here.