First Nations MP resigns from NT parliament, accusing government of passing laws which are ‘dehumanising, oppressing and destroying’ Indigenous people
by Douglas Smith Indigenous affairs reporter from World news | The Guardian on (#77SCD)
Yolngu independent Yiiya Guyula accused the CLP of contributing to the breakdown of our culture and people, in what is becoming a slow genocide'
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A First Nations MP from the Northern Territory has resigned from parliament, accusing the ruling Country Liberal party of introducing laws that are dehumanising, oppressing and destroying our communities and our people", and contributing to a breakdown of culture that he says is becoming a slow genocide".
Yiiya Guyula, a Yolngu man from the Djambarrpuyu clan in east Arnhem Land, was elected as the independent member for Nhulunbuy, now known as Mulka, in 2016.
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