An Aboriginal corporation in Darwin that provides vital frontline services slipped into debt partly because a company supposed to give them hundreds of thousands of dollars to check dive sites for crocodiles never paid, the group’s acting chief executive says.
Larrakia Nation Aboriginal Corporation acting chief executive Allan McGill has outlined how the group became mired in debt that at one point topped $1 million, but has now been reduced to $500,000.
The corporation provides community services such as assisting intoxicated people in public places, arranging medical care for the homeless and assisting impoverished, stranded people to get back to their remo…
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