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’

• The Guardian
• Katharine Murphy

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…

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