Human rights and community groups condemn Acting Prime Minister Michael McCormack for comparing the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests to last week's deadly storming of the US Capitol, demanding he withdraw the 'deeply offensive' comments.
Mr McCormack's attempt to compare those protests with the US Capitol riots drew immediate outrage from Amnesty International, with the human rights organisation's Indigenous Rights Lead Nolan Hunter saying Mr McCormack "must be condemned in the strongest terms".
"To call the Black Lives Matters movement 'race riots' proves that the Acting Prime Minister ignored the incredibly important message that it shared."
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