At the end of his presentation Mr Bowles mentioned briefly that there were some small allocations of funding for programs targeting Indigenous Australians, such as $ 10.5 m over four years for a Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorder prevention program, $ 4.5 million to reduce the risks of communicable diseases in the Torres Strait region and $ 0.4 m to extend the existing National Partnership Agreement on the rhematic fever strategy.
The Government has promised the $ 10.5 million over four years from 2016 - 2017 to reduce the occurrence of the Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), focusing on
prevention of FASD in high risk, remote and rural communities.