Alarm over decision to exclude Queensland police from Indigenous truth-telling inquiry

Queensland’s human rights commissioner says the police service’s dark colonial history must be unearthed in an Indigenous truth-telling inquiry. Photograph: Dave Hunt/AAP

The Queensland Human Rights Commission says it holds grave concerns about the exclusion of the state’s police force from an Indigenous truth-telling inquiry, arguing the institution’s dark colonial history must be unearthed.

The path to treaty bill, introduced into state parliament in February, will lay the groundwork for reconciliation between First Nations people and the Queensland government.