Politics with Michelle Grattan: Labor MP Marion Scrymgour on the Voice and the need for a new NT jobs program

Marion Scrymgour, a former deputy chief minister in the Northern Territory, is the federal Labor member for the seat of Lingiari, an electorate covering almost all the NT outside Darwin.

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Human, Senate, Liberal Party, Opposition, Constitution, Tiwi Islands, Aborigine, Government, Human voice, ATSIC, Name, Man, Time, Leadership, Child, Program, Land council, Liberal, Family, Labour, Indigenous Australians, Whaling, Machine tool, Division of Lingiari
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  • Marion Scrymgour, a former deputy chief minister in the Northern Territory, is the federal Labor member for the seat of Lingiari, an electorate covering almost all the NT outside Darwin.
  • Scrymgour says Dutton is taking up the same theme as was heard in the Northern Territory intervention.
  • “The same campaign that was done to justify the intervention is the same campaign that’s been happening with the Leader of the Opposition.
  • Scrymgour tells the podcast: “We need to get beyond talking about this […] and actually get this program rolled out.
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