Our putative ‘prime minister for Aboriginal affairs’ has made so many mistakes that it’s hard to come to any other conclusion: he does not respect Indigenous culture

Tony Abbott can declare himself the “prime minister for Aboriginal affairs” all he likes, but his absurd, provocative and naive claim that Indigenous Australians living in remote communities were exercising a “lifestyle choice” is the third rhetorical strike against his credibility on the issue.

Strike one: his assertion Australia was unoccupied or barely occupied at white invasion (tell that to the multiple tens of thousands of Indigenous people who died on the colonial frontier).

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