CLP Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Worth says former prime minister Paul Keating “principally held white Australia to account for our nation’s historic wrongs” in his Redfern speech.
“After which took away all accountability from Indigenous Australians to really be chargeable for our personal lives,” she informed Sky Information Australia.
“His speech actually generalised about who he thought it was that had carried out this to Indigenous Australians.”
She mentioned the speech outlined the “white guilt that has been held by white Australians ever since”.
“You may’t take accountability for one thing you didn’t do.
“That guilt politics actually really makes for stagnation.
“It doesn’t assist to resolve any of our points. It’s actually disempowering.”
