First Nations people and organisations are asking new Premier David Crisafulli to reconsider and have vowed to keep telling their truths, with or without government support.
Queensland's truth-telling and healing inquiry will not be allowed to continue, the premier says, claiming he did not want the decision to be 'divisive'. On Thursday, David Crisafulli told the media upcoming truth-telling hearings in Cherbourg and Minjerribah/Terrangerri would not be allowed to go ahead.
"If the inquiry is formally stopped it will be a lost opportunity for the state," he said. "We are not going to get another opportunity at this in the next decade, two decades, in my lifetime." Mr Crisafulli said he didn't want to make the decision to scrap the inquiry a "divisive issue". "We've made a decision.
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