"As if they were nothing" - Future government apology?

Speaking at a Senate inquiry, St Vincent's Chief Executive John Falzon said the next phase of the Government's Northern Territory intervention treats Aboriginal people as if they were nothing.

Dr Falzon predicted the NT intervention could be the subject of a future government apology

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Another government apology being called for, this time by a member of a recognised denomination. It's as if religious personnel had no roll in the way the indigenous were treated until recent times, Christianizing them, believing them to have inferior spirituality.