Bob Katter (Kennedy, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Indigenous Affairs. Is the minister aware of media reports that police armed with guns and tasers literally lined up First Australians and searched them for alcohol and contraband and of a mayor referring to excessive intervention, including flying in a dozen tactical police—and all of this whilst two mayors are under charges and a further was in a confrontation aired on national television? Would the minister not agree that First Australians have been failed, a failure albeit exacerbated by provocation by the Queensland government, a continued position of discriminatory intervention and a refusal to provide perpetual freehold title—a right enjoyed by every Australian, and most people on earth, but not by First Australians? (Time expired)

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