Anthony Albanese’s pivot to Indigenous economic empowerment in his weekend Garma speech was welcome and overdue – but now he’s bogged in a contradiction over his commitment to Makarrata.
On any ordinary interpretation of what he’s saying, the Prime Minister wants to reshape the government’s commitment as being to a process, rather than a new body.
He told a Sunday news conference: “We’ve said Makarrata is a process where we’re talking through what the nature of that process is.
