Wilson Tuckey (O'Connor, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I enter this debate as someone who spent nearly 30 years, prior to my arrival in this place, living in communities in the north-west of WA, where the population typically was about 30 per cent people of Aboriginal extraction. I use that term advisedly, because very few of them were full-blood Aboriginals, whether they worked on pastoral properties or lived on pastoral properties or resided in the township of Carnarvon. Nevertheless, I could include amongst my friends and acquaintances some who carried initiation scars on their chest. The interesting thing about those people at that time was that they were all so fluent in English and they could tell you all sorts of things.

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