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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Lorena Allam and Ben Butler

Linda Burney says investigating Youpla funeral fund will be ‘top of my agenda’

Incoming Indigenous affairs minister Linda Burney
Incoming Indigenous affairs minister Linda Burney says she will immediately start to explore options for a government response to ACBF-Youpla’s collapse. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

Linda Burney will make an investigation into the predatory funeral fund ACBF-Youpla one of her “highest priorities” on taking over as Indigenous affairs minister, after Guardian Australia revealed new details of its collapse, which left more than 13,000 people facing the probable loss of everything they had paid into the fund.

“I assure people that this is the top of my agenda, probably the first thing that needs to be resolved, and I will do that carefully,” Burney told Guardian Australia.

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