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Leader of Indigenous community Doomadgee concerned Voice to Parliament will not be heard

There are concerns the voices of remote Aboriginal communities will not have an impact. (ABC North West Qld: Larissa Waterson)

The leader of an Aboriginal community has met with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on the sidelines of the Voice to Parliament campaign to ask for help to make his vulnerable Indigenous community more liveable.

Doomadgee Aboriginal Shire Council chief executive Troy Fraser made the trek from remote north-west Queensland to Canberra to voice his town's urgent need for flood-resilient infrastructure after the region was inundated in March.

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