Six years to create, two days to dismantle. What happens now Queensland’s Indigenous truth-telling inquiry has been scrapped?
by Ella Archibald-Binge from World news | The Guardian on (#6SRQS)
Members stunned as LNP dumps Indigenous truth-telling inquiry on first day of new parliament
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On the first full sitting day of the new Queensland parliament, the government added an amendment to an otherwise innocuous bill which would signal a dramatic shift in its approach to Indigenous affairs.
Its effect: to repeal the Path to Treaty Act and thereby scrap the state's truth-telling and healing inquiry, just five months after it began.
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