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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Lorena Allam Indigenous affairs editor

Peter Dutton says voice no campaign spokesperson Jacinta Price ‘misspoke’ by saying he attended the Garma festival

Peter Dutton walking past the Australian, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island flags in parliament.
Garma organisers say they cannot recall Peter Dutton ever attending the Garma festival. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

Peter Dutton says CLP senator and leading no campaign spokesperson Jacinta Nampijinpa Price misspoke when she incorrectly said he had been to the Garma festival “several times already”.

The opposition leader has been criticised for not attending the festival, the country’s biggest Indigenous gathering, held every year in north-east Arnhem Land.

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