Prof Jon Altman is a research professor at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Melbourne and an emeritus professor at the Australian National University in Canberra. He has also worked in Aboriginal policy over the past three decades and is one of our foremost experts on Indigenous policy.
He joins Amy McQuire on the programme to talk about where Aboriginal affairs stands after the re-election of the Turnbull government, what may happen in the Senate and Nigel Scullion’s record in Indigenous affairs.
He also discusses the recent WA government ‘roadmap’ which looks to close down up to 150 remote communities in the state.