Linda Burney calls for Gary Johns to be sacked from no campaign after fresh barrage of offensive comments unearthed

Johns accused Indigenous leaders of a ‘grab for power’ and proposed a ‘very heavy cultural intervention’ for Aboriginal children

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The Indigenous Australians minister, Linda Burney, has called on the no campaign to sack Gary Johns after he described the voice to parliament as a “grab for power” and Aboriginal people as an organised lobby group “crawling all over Canberra” in newly unearthed comments.

The former Labor minister, listed as a director of the major no campaign organisation, claimed Indigenous leaders “want to stick it up the white man”, and proposed a “very, very heavy cultural intervention” for Aboriginal children.

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