Doorstop - AMA President, Dr Bill Glasson and Dr David Meadows, AMA PresidentNorthern Territory Branch, Darwin - Indigenous health; visit to Aboriginal communities in the NT

QUESTION:      What are your rollouts that are going out, on the rollouts, we are arguing that that's probably a good funding model.  But if you start capping it as they are doing and saying it's 2,000 people and that's it, what about a community of 2,500, or 3,000 people?  Are you going to just suddenly be deflated by that amount? 

It's got to be flexible and allow the people on the ground to be able to administer it, because they're the ones who know the problems.  Again, you can't get a bureaucrat in Canberra actually saying how it should be run in the community.  So it's a matter of allowing that flexibility and if that happens and the funding is adequate then things will start to...

QUESTION:      But there is a problem though?

MEADOWS:     Oh, there's definitely a problem.

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