Human rights commissioner blasts Queensland government’s ‘hostile’ approach to First Nations people

Queensland human rights commissioner Scott McDougall has urged the LNP to ‘radically reset its relationship’ with Indigenous communities. Photograph: Jono Searle/AAP

Queensland’s human rights commissioner has blasted the state government’s “hostile”, “assimilationist” approach to First Nations people in a speech at Parliament House.

Scott McDougall, Queensland’s first-ever human rights commissioner, has consistently criticised both sides of politics over a range of issues, particularly the state’s youth law and order crackdown. His seven-year term in the role comes to an end next month.