Linda Burney (Barton, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Indigenous Australians) Share this | Hansard source

I have been to communities where babies are drinking sweet cordial instead of water because it's cheaper. I have been to communities where you cannot get in and out, because of the road conditions. I have taken a friend, who died at 43 of end-of-life renal failure, to visit his son in jail. I have seen friends die in hospitals when they were very young because their conditions in their life when they were young were terrible.

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