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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Sarah Collard

First Nations groups reject Peter Dutton’s call for royal commission into child abuse

Opposition leader Peter Dutton and his shadow Indigenous minister, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price
Opposition leader Peter Dutton and his shadow Indigenous minister, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, have repeatedly pushed for a royal commission into alleged child sexual abuse in Indigenous communities. Photograph: Patrick Hamilton/AFP/Getty Images

More than a hundred First Nations advocacy groups and organisations have banded together to oppose Peter Dutton’s calls for a royal commission into the abuse of Indigenous children, accusing the opposition of “political point-scoring” and “demonising” communities.

The opposition leader and his shadow Indigenous Australians minister, the senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, have repeatedly pushed for a royal commission into alleged child sexual abuse in Indigenous communities.

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