PHOTO: Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC) CEO Catherine Liddle Source: SNAICC
A politician who breezed in and out of Bourke earlier this year has again inflamed local people with his comments that have been widely shared on social media.
Back in July 2022, Member of the NSW Legislative Council (MLC) and One Nation party member Mark Latham arranged a whistlestop tour of the northwest.
In the weeks following, he posted a series of comments on social media describing an “epidemic of child sexual abuse” in Bourke, declaring that “every Aboriginal child in Bourke NSW over the age of 5 has been sexually abused, with some certain to have been raped last night”.
Not surprisingly, Latham’s statements were considered by many community members and organisations to be non-productive and even defamatory…