Linda Burney blasts Nigel Scullion as a 'failed' Indigenous affairs minister

By Fergus Hunter
Updated July 25 2016 - 8:25pm, first published 12:44pm
Mick Gooda Photo: Peter Eve/Yothu Yindi Foundation
Mick Gooda Photo: Peter Eve/Yothu Yindi Foundation
Opposition spokeswoman for human services Linda Burney. Photo: Mark Jesser
Opposition spokeswoman for human services Linda Burney. Photo: Mark Jesser

Newly elected Labor frontbencher Linda Burney says that Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion is a failure, pointing to recent cuts to Indigenous funding and his hostile relationship with advocacy group the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples.

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