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Opposition Proposes Scrapping Indigenous Ambassador Post

The First Nations ambassador has an allocated $350,000 travel allowance.
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Opposition Proposes Scrapping Indigenous Ambassador Post
The site of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy protest in Canberra, Australia, on Feb. 8, 2024. Melanie Sun/The Epoch Times
Rex Widerstrom
Rex Widerstrom
9/23/2024|Updated: 9/25/2024
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The office of the First Nations—Indigenous—Ambassador, created just over a year ago, would be closed “on day one” of a Coalition government, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has said.

This was after it was revealed that the current ambassador, Justin Mohamed, had spent $145,000 on business class airfares in the 2023-24 financial year.

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