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Racial Discrimination Act debate a ‘creep back to bigotry’, says Pat Dodson
Indigenous senator says ‘racism isn’t growing wild in the fields, it’s being tended in flower boxes in flats and houses’
Labor senator Pat Dodson says the debate about watering down the Racial Discrimination Act is a “creep back to bigotry and racism” and has used a speech to the Senate to underscore the power of words.
Dodson, a prominent Indigenous leader before his entry to federal politics, told…