“It seems to me the focus we’ve got to take as a parliament is to not keep kicking that can down the road, to face up to it and deal with it,” Dodson said. Dodson was widely expected to be the nation’s first Indigenous cabinet minister if Labor won government but that title went to Noongar man Ken Wyatt who was sworn in as the Liberal National party’s minister for Indigenous Australians late last week. Ken Wyatt’s historic appointment could be truly transformational for Indigenous Australians | Jessa Rogers Read moreDodson said Labor’s defeat was “a sad blow, there’s no doubt about that”. Dodson called for a bipartisan approach to advance the demands of the Uluru statement from the heart. “Both can be done, and I would hope that if we really reflect on the Uluru statement, that’s what people have asked for.

Source: The Guardian June 05, 2019 00:45 UTC