Morrison government 'passing the buck' on Aboriginal deaths in custody, Labor says

Pat Dodson and Malarndirri McCarthy say the issue is a national disaster' and the Coalition is not showing leadership

Labor's Indigenous senators Pat Dodson and Malarndirri McCarthy have launched a scathing attack on the Morrison government for passing the buck" on Aboriginal deaths in custody, saying its lack of leadership was immoral" when the issue was a national crisis.

We've gotten to the chronic stage now where instead of learning from the royal commission and its recommendations 30 years ago, we're standing on the brink potentially of another royal commission to inquire into the same sorts of things," Dodson told reporters in Canberra.