The Northern Territory’s Deputy Chief Minister says a recent Commonwealth commitment to health funding will boost Indigenous numbers in training and employment.
Both the Prime Minister and Opposition leader signed off last week on a pledge to improve Indigenous health.
One of the first initiatives was to earmark $19 million in federal funding to encourage more indigenous people into health careers.
Marion Scrymgour says the funding could also be used to develop Indigenous people already in health careers.
"We certainly need to try and get Indigenous nurses, look at the professional development and up skilling of Indigenous health workers to use that pathway as a pathway to go into nursing and other areas within health, so yeah I think that’s an important area."
Ms Scrymgour has hosed down suggestions of a bipartisan agreement on Indigenous affairs at the Territory level.
The Territory’s Opposition Leader Terry Mills says he made a similar offer of bipartisanship to the Territory Government last year but was ignored.
The Territory’s Deputy Chief Minister Marion Scrymgour is unmoved by Terry Mills idea.
"They say a lot of nice words in terms of we will give bipartisan support and then criticise what is being put on the table so he can’t have two bites of the cherry here."