Ben Fordham assists in promoting FACT or FICTION

In this case Tony Abbott hasn’t changed his spots it’s all FICTION

During a radio interview with 2GB’s Ben Fordham this week, former prime minister Tony Abbott also name-checked the NIAA, citing the “hundreds of people” working for the agency in Canberra as among the reasons a Voice was not needed.

He then claimed that the agency “disburses something like $30 billion a year on various Indigenous programs”.

Mr Abbott’s comments echo similar claims on social media that “dedicated Indigenous bodies” such as the NIAA were collectively “funded to the tune of 30 BILLION PLUS dollars”.

However, in a statement to CheckMate, a spokesman for the NIAA said it “has never administered funding of $30 billion per annum”.

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