Julian Leeser has expressed his disappointment with Noel Pearson after the Indigenous leader targeted the former shadow Indigenous Australian minister’s Jewish faith.
Mr Pearson questioned whether Mr Leeser wants people to wear a tattoo identifying them as Indigenous or “our clothes should be adorned with some kind of badge identifying us as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander”.
At the time the Indigenous leader made those remarks, Mr Leeser said he was taking his son to the synagogue.Read More
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