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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Antoun Issa

Afternoon Update: no voice leader criticised over Aboriginality blood test comments; Kathryn Campbell resigns; and John Farnham cancer-free

Gary Johns
Former Labor minister Gary Johns has been criticised for comments he wrote in a book published last year proposing blood test to prove Aboriginality. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

Good afternoon. The no campaign leader and former Labor minister Gary Johns has been criticised after comments he made proposing blood tests to prove Aboriginality for welfare payments have emerged.

“If the current three-part test on Aboriginality is to remain, then, just as Aborigines insist in native title claims, blood will have to be measured for all benefits and jobs,” Johns wrote in his book published last year.

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