The Country Liberal Party Senator hit back after the Opposition leader was accused by the NT Police Minister of committing a “dog act” by using the issue of Aboriginal child sex abuse to launch his support for the No campaign.
“Imagine if this was done to victims of the Catholic church, imagine that,” she told Sky News Australia host Paul Murray.
Northern Territory Police and Families Minister Kate Worden accused Mr Dutton of committing a “dog act” by using the issue to launch his support for the No campaign ahead of a referendum on an Aboriginal Voice to Parliament. “You only have to listen to individuals who have been speaking to Dutton over the last couple of days, they’ve been in tears, they’re like ‘thank God somebody in a leadership position is listening to us and is prepared to fight on our behalf’, and all Labor can say on that is accuse us of politicising this issue, when in fact they are doing that, by suggesting that in the first place. That is all they’ve got,” she said.
“I can guarantee you I am fielding calls. I am having conversations with people who know what’s going on, there’s frontline workers who can’t talk about what’s going on,” she said.
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