Lidia Thorpe (Victoria, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

My question is for the Minister for Indigenous Australians, Minister McCarthy. Minister, you've stated that one of your priorities is to stop politicians using First Peoples as a political football. Your government said it is committed to truth-telling. If we want to talk about truth, let's talk about how over 98 per cent of First People in this country have been wiped out in less than 300 years. There have been over 500 documented massacres. And our children are still being removed and locked up at growing rates. Minister, do you acknowledge that, since colonisation, governments have implemented genocidal policies against First Peoples?