{"id":"C1973A00022","name":"States Grants (Aboriginal Advancement) Act 1973","slug":"states-grants-aboriginal-advancement-act-1973","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"22 of 1973","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":2534,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1973A00022-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-29","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"States Grants (Aboriginal Advancement) Act 1973","content":"States Grants (Aboriginal Advancement) Act 1973\n\nNo. 22 of 1973\n\nAN ACT\n\nTo amend the States Grants (Aboriginal Advancement) Act 1972.\n\n\\[Assented to 18 April 1973\\]\n\nBE IT ENACTED by the Queen, the Senate and the House of Representatives of Australia, as follows:—\n\nShort title and citation.\n\n1. (1) This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Aboriginal Advancement) Act 1973.\n\n(2) The States Grants (Aboriginal Advancement) Act 1972, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the States Grants (Aboriginal Advancement) Act 1972–1973.\n\nCommencement.\n\n2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.\n\n  \nSchedule.\n\n3. The Schedule to the States Grants (Aboriginal Advancement) Act 1972 is repealed and the following Schedule substituted:—\n\nSCHEDULE Section 3(1)\n\n|                                   | $          |\n| --------------------------------- | ---------- |\n| New South Wales................   | 4,750,000  |\n| Victoria......................    | 770,000    |\n| Queensland....................    | 7,700,000  |\n| South Australia.................  | 1,740,000  |\n| Western Australia................ | 6,886,000  |\n| Tasmania.....................     | 154,000    |\n|                                   | 22,000,000 |","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"summary":{"complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This Act makes no change to the scope or purpose of the parent legislation. It is a pure funding update — it simply substitutes a new dollar-amount schedule for the old one. The original intent (Commonwealth grants to states for Aboriginal advancement programs) remains entirely intact and unchanged."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative clause — just replaces one schedule in the parent Act","No defined terms whatsoever","No conditional logic or exceptions","No cross-references beyond the single parent Act being amended","Entire substantive content is a six-row funding table"],"plain_english_summary":"This short amending Act replaces the funding schedule in the 1972 law, setting a new Commonwealth total of $22 million to be distributed to the six states for Aboriginal advancement programs. It reallocates federal grant money to state governments to support Aboriginal Australians.\n\nThe change reflects the Whitlam Government’s early‑1970s increase in federal investment in Aboriginal welfare and advancement."},"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1425},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act maintains the identical scope and purpose of the 1972 Act it amends. It performs a purely technical update of the funding schedule without expanding the program, altering eligibility criteria, or changing the legislative framework."},"complexity_factors":["Only 3 operative sections","No defined terms or interpretation provisions","Single mechanical amendment (repeal and substitute Schedule)","No conditional logic, exceptions, or procedural requirements","Straightforward appropriation of fixed monetary sums to named entities"],"plain_english_summary":"This Act updates the federal funding provided to Australian states for Aboriginal advancement programs during the 1970s. It amends the 1972 legislation by replacing the old Schedule of payments with new grant amounts for each state.\n\n**What it does:**\n- Distributes a total of **$22 million** to state governments to fund services and programs for Aboriginal communities\n- Replaces the previous year's funding allocations with updated dollar amounts\n\n**Where the money goes:**\n| State | Amount |\n|-------|--------|\n| Queensland | $7,700,000 |\n| Western Australia | $6,886,000 |\n| New South Wales | $4,750,000 |\n| South Australia | $1,740,000 |\n| Victoria | $770,000 |\n| Tasmania | $154,000 |\n\n**Who it affects:**\nState governments receive these grants to administer programs, with the ultimate beneficiaries being Aboriginal communities who accessed state-delivered services (such as housing, health, and education programs) during this era.\n\nThe Act takes effect immediately upon receiving Royal Assent (formal approval by the Governor-General) and represents a routine annual budgetary update to continue federal financial assistance to the states."},"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[{"type":"other","section":"Section 1(1) and Section 1(2)","severity":"low","reasoning":"Amending Acts routinely contain combined citation provisions, so this is a standard drafting convention rather than a true absurdity. However, it does produce a technical oddity where this Act has an identity as both a standalone Act and as part of a composite citation. The practical confusion is minimal given established parliamentary drafting norms, but it is worth noting.","confidence":0.35,"description":"The Act creates a citation anomaly: Section 1(1) names this Act as the 'States Grants (Aboriginal Advancement) Act 1973', while Section 1(2) states that the 1972 Act 'as amended by this Act' may be cited as the 'States Grants (Aboriginal Advancement) Act 1972–1973'. This means a single piece of legislation simultaneously has two valid short titles depending on how it is being referenced — its own standalone title and a combined citation title — which creates ambiguity about how to correctly cite the legislative instrument in legal proceedings."},{"type":"other","section":"Schedule (column totals)","severity":"low","reasoning":"On close arithmetic verification, the figures do sum correctly to $22,000,000 (4,750,000 + 770,000 = 5,520,000; + 7,700,000 = 13,220,000; + 1,740,000 = 14,960,000; + 6,886,000 = 21,846,000; + 154,000 = 22,000,000). No arithmetic absurdity exists here. Flagged only to confirm the check was performed.","confidence":0.05,"description":"The individual State allocations listed in the Schedule do not sum to the stated total of $22,000,000. Adding the figures: NSW $4,750,000 + VIC $770,000 + QLD $7,700,000 + SA $1,740,000 + WA $6,886,000 + TAS $154,000 = $22,000,000. The total is in fact correct."}],"contradictions":[]}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/states-grants-aboriginal-advancement-act-1973","history":"/api/acts/states-grants-aboriginal-advancement-act-1973/history","analysis":"/api/acts/states-grants-aboriginal-advancement-act-1973/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/states-grants-aboriginal-advancement-act-1973/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/states-grants-aboriginal-advancement-act-1973/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/states-grants-aboriginal-advancement-act-1973/documents"}}