CLP Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says it isn’t exactly clear what the idea of Queensland’s Indigenous “truth-telling” inquiry is and the need to set up another bureaucracy that will require funding.
“It doesn’t outline what the practical outcomes of this is going to mean for Indigenous Queenslanders going forward,” she told Sky News host Paul Murray.
“I’m still trying to wrap my head around this idea that you have a treaty with your very own citizens and how that’s supposed to work.”
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