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Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has accused the government of being in denial about the management of Indigenous communities, after former Aboriginal affairs spokeswoman senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, called for an inquiry in an opinion piece this morning.
“Get out of denial about the situation we’re seeing around Alice Springs and elsewhere. I mean, it’s the denial that has led us to this place where people aren’t prepared to have honest conversations about the state of affairs in our town camps and what options there are to address it,” Taylor told Sky News this morning.
“We’ll work with the government on any reasonable options to address this, but we’ve got to get out of denial about what this is doing to those communities.”
Taylor said the government needs to “come clean, confront the reality” of violence and sexual violence in Indigenous communities, and referenced a Coalition election commitment last year to hold a royal commission on the matter.
“We will work with the government on any reasonable proposal to address what is a completely untenable and unsustainable situation,” Taylor said.
“We need to have bipartisanship. We need both sides of politics working together to address what is a truly tragic situation,” he said.
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