As she begins role, McCarthy vows to work collegially with all sides of politics to improve outcomes for First Nations people
The new minister for Indigenous Australians, Senator Malarndirri McCarthy, says she wants to lead a more “honourable discourse” about matters affecting the lives of
“And one of the things that I would like to do in the next couple of weeks is to reach out to my opponents – to Senator Nampijinpa Price with the Coalition, to the Greens with Dorinda Cox and then of course to the teals in the lower house as well as all of the cross benchers in the Senate – and really try to elevate the importance of having honourable discourse around it to improve the lives, sincerely, for First Nations people.
“Where I come from, we have four language groups – the Yanyuwa, the Garrwa, the Marra and the Gudanji peoples – and all my life I’ve had to navigate through the discourse of those four clan groups and try and keep us focused,” she says.
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