Peta Credin reacts to Pat Dodson's ‘frank' address on Indigenous rights
Sky News host discusses a 'remarkably frank' address from Indigenous leader and former Labor Senator Pat Dodson.
'Earlier this week, in a remarkably frank address, the Indigenous leader and former Labor senator Pat Dodson has told the rest of us that Aboriginal people are owed more than just equality,' Ms Credlin said.
'Practical reconciliation, he said, and taking steps to 'close the gap' in employment, education and health outcomes, are not enough, said Dodson, because that ignores the 'inherent and collective rights of the first peoples of Australia'.
'Just as we rejected two classes of citizens during the Voice debate, we must also reject this latest push from Pat Dodson.'
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