Mission & Justice

Jeremy Roberts & John Wiseman; 12/5/08

Former federal indigenous affairs minister Mal Brough was warned two years ago not to deal with certain prominent Aboriginal figures in South Australia’s remote northwest because they were being investigated for sex crimes, he has revealed. Mr Brough – who lost his federal seat of Longman in Queensland at the last election – said the confidential advice to steer clear of several high profile indigenous people came from South Australia’s Aboriginal Affairs Minister Jay Weatherill. Mr Brough said he was breaking his silence out of frustration at the Rann Government’s failure to move decisively against sexual predators in the state’s northern desert lands, in spite of evidence reaching as far as Mr Weatherill.

See; http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23681319-5013404,00.html

Tags: Aboriginal, Australia, Sex Trade

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