Police commissioner stops short of using word ‘genocide’ to describe actions of previous governments towards Indigenous population

The health, police and other departments “failed” Aboriginal people “for 160 years”, Queensland’s truth-telling and healing inquiry has heard.

Seven heads of state government departments, including the police commissioner, Steve Gollschewski, and the Department of Premier and Cabinet director general, Mike Kaiser, appeared at the inquiry on Tuesday.

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