Queensland state leader Annastacia Palaszczuk says she is willing to travel to the UK to try and retrieve artefacts belonging to the ancestors of local Indigenous communities.
The Labor premier’s comments come after the Queensland Parliament, on May 10, passed a new law—with bipartisan support—to set up a “Truth-telling inquiry” to investigate the “continuing impacts” of colonisation on its Indigenous communities.
Following in the stead of Canada, the Path to Treaty Bill will eventually lead to “treaties” being negotiated between the state and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities—likely to cost Queenslanders millions of dollars.
Following the passing of the law, Palaszczuk said there was a “wealth of artefacts” being stored in the “basement of the British Museum.”…