LNP to Scrap Aboriginal ‘Truth-Telling’ Inquiry, Sparking Criticism

Queensland Premier David Crisafulli has announced the newly-elected Liberal-National Party (LNP) government “won’t be allowing” the state’s Truth-Telling and Healing Inquiry to run planned next month.
This comes despite the party initially supporting the Path to Treaty legislation in May last year.
The Inquiry started in July and was legislated to run for three years.
The independent Inquiry has held five public hearings since September, intending to set the foundation for an eventual Treaty negotiation between the state and Indigenous communities, which would likely include reparations.
Indigenous leader Warren Mundine had previously warned that the Truth-telling process would sideline those that opposed the official narrative around colonialism.
“In a free society, if people are unable to tell the truth or provide information, then you are unable to defeat [falsehoods] through conversation. And when you get committees making decisions on this, that is where it gets dangerous,” Mundine said.
Meanwhile, Nick Dametto, deputy leader of Katter’s Australia Party (KAP), also spoke out against it.
“This week I called for equality, not division, multiculturalism, not segregation,” he wrote on Facebook.
“Australia should be one. And not divided by trying to create a situation where one race of people in this country have more of a say than the rest,” he added.