Audit into Aurukun School finds enrolments overstated
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Indigenous leader Noel Pearson says he has been vindicated by an investigation into the troubled school at Aurukun in far-north Queensland. The school was temporarily closed in May last year after student unrest. Queensland's Auditor-General has found no evidence of financial impropriety in his report into the school's operations. But the report did find that there were poor governance mechanisms in the partnership between government and Noel Pearson's organisation.
Source: PM | Duration: 4min 47sec
Topics: education, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, qld, australia
Indigenous leader Noel Pearson says he's been vindicated by an investigation into the troubled school at Aurukun in far-north Queensland.
The school was temporarily closed in May last year after student unrest.
Queensland's Auditor-General found that enrolments were overstated, and that there were poor governance mechanisms in the partnership between government and Noel Pearson's organisation.
But the Auditor General's report found no evidence of financial impropriety within the school's operations.
And Noel Pearson has called for the Education Department to be investigated.
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