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It’s time for that perennial spotlight on national negligence in Indigenous affairs

Here we go again.

It’s time for that perennial spotlight on national negligence in Indigenous affairs, the excruciating parliamentary groundhog day that highlights federal parliament’s failure to govern for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

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