Aboriginal Affairs Minister Urges Queensland to Hit the Brakes on Axing Truth-Telling Inquiry

The “decent and fair” thing for the Queensland government to do would be to allow the state’s Truth-Telling and Healing Inquiry to finish its work and produce its report, the federal Labor Minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy has said. Incoming Premier David Crisafulli went into the election promising to abolish the commission responsible for the Inquiry, and earlier this week made the announcement that his government would do so. “I’d certainly say to the new premier of Queensland, just hold your horses here. Don’t be hasty … Let this process roll through,” Senator McCarthy told the ABC, noting that the federal government was tracking the progress of truth-telling inquiries across the states and territories....