We have been down this road before. In 2006, Alyawarre woman Pat Anderson was appointed, together with Rex Wild, KC, as a board of inquiry with four terms of reference relating to sexual abuse of Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory. Despite the comparable incidence of such sexual abuse in the main and regional towns, the focus – at least in the media – was more on remote Aboriginal communities and on the suggestion made by a person initially identified as a “youth worker” that there were paedophile rings in the community in which he had been living and working. Long after, this story unravelled, with confirmation the claimed “youth worker” was in fact an assistant secretary in the Commonwealth government Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination, reporting directly to then Indigenous Affairs minister Mal Brough, and had not been residing in the community in question.

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