00:02Sliding doors and the start of a new chapter, the hope of the NT Education Minister spruiking
00:09improved school attendance figures.
00:12Term 2 we've seen a bounce back of the attendance figures by 1.2 percentage points.
00:17Term 2 2026 higher than last year and 2024 after attendance decreased in Term 1 2026
00:27compared to the two years prior.
00:28The improved numbers coming after attendance went backwards through 2025.
00:34The minister saying last resort fines and income management for slack parents now working.
00:41Once families go on the income management then their children do go back into the school.
00:47Jo Hersey also confirmed the government's child protection bill will be debated next week
00:53after the scrutiny committee called for clarification
00:55over the bill's threshold for child removals.
00:59A member of that same committee today saying the threshold is not being weakened.
01:05There is nothing to say that we are lowering the threshold for child removal.
01:09We are simply making the paramount consideration is the safety of the child.
01:15A nightly $450 travel allowance for MLAs based outside Darwin when they travel to the NT Capital also on the
01:24agenda.
01:24After it was revealed three politicians, including Mrs Hersey, claim it when staying at properties they own,
01:32sparking calls for a review of the entitlement.
01:35This remuneration tribunal does get reviewed every year and if the remuneration tribunal thinks that it needs to be reviewed
01:44then it will happen.
01:45The tribunal is set to publish its next determination later this year.
01:50The tribunal claims the
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