Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has taken Opposition leader Peter Dutton to task over his push for an Indigenous child abuse Royal Commission despite his government’s cuts to Indigenous funding.
The Opposition Leader and Coalition have called for an audit into Indigenous spending and a Royal Commission into sexual abuse in remote communities.
In 2014, the previous Coalition government had cut $534 million from Indigenous programs over the next five years.
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