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INTERVIEW: Indigenous Australians Minister on the parliamentary inquiry into racism

INTERVIEW: Indigenous Australians Minister on the parliamentary inquiry into racism

SBS News in Depth
15 min
5 Mar
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A federal parliamentary inquiry has opened into racism in Australia, with advocates calling for the probe to be not 'another exercise in diagnosis'. The Australian Human Rights Commission says the government already knows what needs to change, and the inquiry must turn that knowledge into action, with timelines and accountability. Meanwhile the federal Minister for Indigenous Australians Malandirri McCarthy is encouraging big social media platforms to make submissions to the inquiry. She's told NITV some Indigenous people are feeling scared after a string of reports of racist attacks in public. She's talking here to NITV's John Paul Janke