The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has said that a memo sent to the staff prior to Australia Day encouraging them to act “inclusively” towards Indigenous Australians was not an official document and that it should not have been disseminated.
It comes after the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) and other media outlets reported on Jan. 26 about an internal email from an acting DFAT staffer working on Pacific issues that told employees to “educate” themselves about the history of Australia during colonial times.
