Скачать или смотреть Andrew Bolt hits out at Linda Burney for ‘false’ claims about Lowitja O'Donoghue

Sky News host Andrew Bolt claims some of the facts in Indigenous Affairs Minister Linda Burney’s statement about Lowitja O'Donoghue following her death were “false”.

The Indigenous Affairs Minister released a statement after Indigenous leader Lowitja O’Donoghue died aged 91.

“At two years old she was taken away from her mother in remote South Australia and placed in a mission home, where her name was anglicised and she was prohibited from speaking her own language,” Ms Burney said.

“The Matron of the Colebrook Children's Home in South Australia where she grew up, told her that she wouldn't amount to anything.”

Some of Ms O’Donoghue’s acquaintances and a relative confirmed to Mr Bolt that the Indigenous leader was not stolen as a child. Instead, her white father dumped her and all of her brothers and sisters bar one at a home in South Australia.

She was looked after by Sister Rutter and the matron, Sister Hyde, who devoted their lives to helping children who were abandoned or neglected or sent to them for an education.

“The fact O'Donoghue went so far in her career and gave so much is a tribute to what the sisters at Colebrook taught her and that real story – not the one from the Indigenous Australians minister – tells a very different and better one than this government tries to keep telling us,” Mr Bolt said.