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Member for Berowa Julian Leeser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

March 23, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Nations residents ripped off by unscrupulous businesses have been left dangling after a Federal Government inquiry ran out of time to complete its hearings.<\/p>\n

The Indigenous Affairs Committee published an interim report this week after winding up its inquiry into better corporate engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander consumers.<\/p>\n

This report has been presented as an issues paper for consideration in the next Parliament “due to the limited time available to conduct the inquiry and the inability to travel due to the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic”.<\/p>\n

The committee noted it had not concluded its evidence-gathering in relation to misfeasance by some corporations against First Nations consumers, or had a chance to speak with those businesses about their practices.<\/p>\n

The interim report therefore had made no formal policy recommendations to government.<\/p>\n

It did, however, highlight some core issues that it believed would serve “as a useful starting point” for any new committee.<\/strong><\/p>\n

These included:<\/p>\n