There were plenty of community-led solutions on the table, and very little commitment at a time when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families and the services that support them are under scrutiny and needing support the most."The Arrernte/Luritja woman has told NITV this budget won't deliver generational fairness for First Nations people."What we needed to see in this budget was a commitment to community-led solutions, a really big emphasis on funding streams that go, 'We're going to get into families who are experiencing vulnerability Legal assistance is an important component of that in keeping people out of the justice system and out of our youth detention centres and our prisons, but it's also about housing, it's about health, it's about job opportunities."Senator Thorpe agrees the legal assistance sector didn't get the funding it needs."You have to fund Aboriginal Legal Services, and we have to fund self-determined solutions that our people know work for our community, but they're just not being resourced to do it."But she said there are glimmers of progress."We did have a win, and something that I've certainly been fighting for, and that was to exempt Stolen Gen reparation payments for Elders receiving aged care payments."Malarndirri McCarthy recognising it's an important reform."Well, we've invested over three million dollars in the redress scheme