Senate debates

Thursday, 19 September 2024

Questions without Notice

First Nations Australians

2:54 pm

Photo of Malarndirri McCarthyMalarndirri McCarthy (NT, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Indigenous Australians) Share this | Hansard source

Well, the first at question time. You've had plenty in estimates; there's no doubt about that—and I'm sure there will be more to come. Certainly, the history of this country is fraught with policies that have impacted, very negatively, the lives of First Nations people, including the stolen generations, in terms of the high rates of removals from the 1800s right up to the 1970s. What this government has done is redress those issues in trying to work with the stolen generations reparations—

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