Published: October 26, 2018
Former Labor MP denies he is biased against Indigenous charities in Senate hearing
Labor has called on the Indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, to investigate the “offensive” views of the charities commissioner, Gary Johns, after the former Labor MP refused to back away from past comments that pregnant Indigenous women were being used as “cash cows”.
Johns, a minister in the Keating government, told a Senate estimates hearing this week that he had questioned his staff over the inclusion of an acknowledgement of traditional owners in their email signature, saying it could suggest the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission had a “bias” towards Indigenous charities.
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