Queensland government failed Indigenous people ‘for 160 years’, truth-telling inquiry hears
by Andrew Messenger from World news | The Guardian on (#6QZ3G)
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The health, police and other departments failed" Aboriginal people for 160 years", Queensland's truth-telling and healing inquiry has heard.
Seven heads of state government departments, including the police commissioner, Steve Gollschewski, and the Department of Premier and Cabinet director general, Mike Kaiser, appeared at the inquiry on Tuesday.
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