Shadow minister for Indigenous Australians Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has accused the left of trying to “weaponise” Australia’s history as backlash grows over the Albanese government’s failure to clarify its commitment to its Makarrata Commission pledge.
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has accused the left of trying to “weaponise” Australia’s history as backlash grows over the seemingly abandoned Makarrata Commission pledge.
An ABC report on Wednesday titled ‘Government walks away from truth-telling commission promise’, critical of the apparent U-turn, highlighted the “impacts of violence” of colonisation and the “transgenerational traumaJacinta Price has slammed the concept of the Makarrata Commission, arguing it would be weaponised against Australians. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman
“Trying to weaponise it against other Australians, because guilt politics has been stifling, continues to be stifling, and doesn't help anybody to progress forward, which is what I believe the Makarratta Commission is actually designed to do.” “There is certainly a crisis occurring all over the country but particularly in our most regional and remote parts of the country,” she said.
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