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Reports will be provided annually after that, Indigenous Australians Minister Ken Wyatt said on Friday.
Mr Rudd on Friday called the change a brazen effort to wriggle out of accountability in a tweet. All Australians deserve to know on Monday how their government is succeeding or failing in terms of meeting the #ClosingTheGap targets, he wrote.
All Australians deserve to know on Monday how their government is succeeding or failing in terms of meeting the #ClosingTheGap targets just we have for the last 13 years. There s no reason why they couldn t do it, except Morrison is too embarrassed. Kevin Rudd (@MrKRudd) February 12, 2021
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Subscriber only The family of an Aboriginal man who died while in custody at Lismore are relieved a manslaughter charge has been brought against the NSW Corrective Services officer allegedly responsible for his death. Mr Johnstone, 43, was in the custody of Corrective Services NSW officers when he was shot outside Lismore Base Hospital on March 15, 2019. He died shortly later from the injuries sustained during the shooting. Last year the NSW Coroner referred Mr Johnstone s death to the Director of Public Prosecutions. Following their investigation, the NSW Police last week officially charged the Corrective Services officer who fired the weapon with manslaughter, and they are due to face Lismore Local Court on March 29.