Five months after LNP MPs voted in favour of the laws to set up a First Nations Treaty Institute and a truth-telling and healing inquiry, leader David Crisafulli has declared the path to treaty is "not the right way forward for Queensland".
Five months after LNP MPs voted in favour of the laws to set up a First Nations Treaty Institute and a truth-telling and healing inquiry, leader David Crisafulli declared it was “not the right way forward for Queensland”.
“When the LNP originally agreed to enabling legislation for the Path to Treaty we did so in good faith as a genuine effort to promote better outcomes for Indigenous Australians,” he said in a statement seen by the ABC.
Just hours earlier, her minister Mark Bailey called the LNP’s decision a “naked grab for popularity”, and that the government would continue the “treaty process”.
“We write on behalf of Queensland’s 17 Indigenous Shires and Regional Councils to express our extreme hurt and disappointment at your announcement today of your decision to withdraw your support for Path to Treaty,” the letter stated.
The special inquiry — set to run for at least three years — would air injustices and investigate the impacts of colonisation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
At the time, Mr Crisafulli described the bill as a “genuine opportunity for our state to improve the lives of Indigenous Australians” and one he believed “Queensland should embrace wholeheartedly”.
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Five months after LNP MPs voted in favour of the laws to set up a First Nations Treaty Institute and a truth-telling and healing inquiry, leader David Crisafulli declared it was “not the right way forward for Queensland”.
“When the LNP originally agreed to enabling legislation for the Path to Treaty we did so in good faith as a genuine effort to promote better outcomes for Indigenous Australians,” he said in a statement seen by the ABC.
Just hours earlier, her minister Mark Bailey called the LNP’s decision a “naked grab for popularity”, and that the government would continue the “treaty process”.
“We write on behalf of Queensland’s 17 Indigenous Shires and Regional Councils to express our extreme hurt and disappointment at your announcement today of your decision to withdraw your support for Path to Treaty,” the letter stated.
The special inquiry — set to run for at least three years — would air injustices and investigate the impacts of colonisation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
At the time, Mr Crisafulli described the bill as a “genuine opportunity for our state to improve the lives of Indigenous Australians” and one he believed “Queensland should embrace wholeheartedly”.
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