Operator of the Inverell swimming pool said police were called on children who ‘refused to cease antisocial behaviour’

A mother says her six-year-old daughter is “traumatised” after she and other Aboriginal children were escorted from a country New South Wales pool by police, after reports of “antisocial behaviour”.

Inverell Aquatic Centre has been accused of discrimination after police were called to evict several Aboriginal families from the facility in northern NSW on Sunday, prompting Amnesty International to call for an investigation into a potential “violation of human rights”.

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