Six years to create, two days to dismantle. What happens now Queensland’s Indigenous truth-telling inquiry has been scrapped?

Members stunned as LNP dumps Indigenous truth-telling inquiry on first day of new parliamentGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOn 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.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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Six years to create, two days to dismantle. What happens now Queensland’s Indigenous truth-telling inquiry has been scrapped?

Members stunned as LNP dumps Indigenous truth-telling inquiry on first day of new parliament

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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