Peter Dutton’s claims about racism are ‘disingenuous’, co-chair of Indigenous voice group says
Peter Dutton
In an interview with youth-oriented podcast The Daily Aus, released on Monday, Dutton said it was “racist” to say that Indigenous people were affected differently by policies compared with people who were not Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.“It’s actually a racist statement to say that an Indigenous person is impacted differently than a non-Indigenous person in relation to any area of public policy.
“The prime minister says ‘the voice will only be concerned with issues relating to Indigenous Australians’. Now, I mean do you think that that includes health and education? Of course. Does it include law and order and policies around those areas in communities? Of course it does … I think there are just questions that are reasonably asked,” he told the program.
Calma told Guardian Australia that he struggled to understand why Dutton was suggesting policies did not impact different populations in adverse ways, adding that there was a long legacy of public policy failing Indigenous people.
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