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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Tamsin Rose and Sarah Basford Canales

Indigenous people ‘disgusted’ by Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s ‘simply wrong’ comments on colonisation, Burney says

Shadow minister for Indigenous Australians, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, at the National Press Club in Canberra on Thursday.
Shadow minister for Indigenous Australians, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, at the National Press Club in Canberra on Thursday. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

The Indigenous Australians minister, Linda Burney, says comments made by Jacinta Nampijinpa Price that there were no lasting negative impacts of British colonisation have caused great distress among the Aboriginal community.

The Labor minister also revealed she had faced a “gruelling” two weeks, telling NSW premier Chris Minns she had been on the receiving end of “unbelievably racist” bullying and “appalling” treatment.

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