Queensland truth-telling chair says minister has cancelled first meeting as government moves to abolish inquiry

Joshua Creamer says ceasing inquiry’s work ‘continues 165 years of government failing to listen to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’

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The head of Queensland’s Indigenous truth-telling and healing inquiry says the new minister has called off their first meeting by email, as the government prepares to pass a law eliminating the body.

The inquiry chair, Joshua Creamer, revealed on Wednesday that he was scheduled to meet with the minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander partnerships, Fiona Simpson, on Thursday afternoon.

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