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The ongoing saga of Aboriginal victims of non Aboriginal financial misappropriation from programmes designed to help Aboriginal people Northern Territory man Johannes Joubert, 46, was sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to stealing $780,000 from several Aboriginal organisations while working as a bookkeeper for private accounting firm Centre Accounting Services (CAS) in Alice Springs. The court heard he transferred funds from his clients' bank accounts directly into his personal bank account. He used almost 170 separate transactions to pilfer about $550,000 from more than a dozen mostly not-for-profit Aboriginal organisations in remote Central Australia. He also stole $230,000 from a link-up service for family members of the Stolen Generation, which closed last year due to a misuse of Commonwealth funds and was audited over "compliance issues". The Central Australian Stolen Generations and Families Aboriginal Corporation had provided two programs — a social and emotional wellbeing link-up service and a primary healthcare program. "Aboriginal people were deprived of benefit," Justice Peter Barr said in sentencing. Canberra man Nicholas Schofield was jailed for up to five years, eligible for parole in three years, after pleading guilty to eight charges related to the theft of $1.4 million from Indigenous Business Australia (IBA), the Commonwealth body set up to help Indigenous people achieve economic independence through housing loans and business investment. Schofield stole the money when he was IBA's finance systems manager. He told police it was "easy" and spent the cash on overseas holidays, a luxury car, house repayments and a $10,000 doll house.

Calling for an audit into Indigenous related expenditure only, is racist‼️ I’m all for a full audit into all government expenditure, especially the rivers of gold that get paid to fossil fuel companies and defence contractors, not to mention corporate donors on both sides of the isle. Yes please, do bring on the audits, let’s clear the air once and for all