Your afternoon Briefing: Wyatt, Dodson blast Tony Abbott job offer

Good afternoon, readers. A Liberal MP has refused to endorse Tony Abbott in his new indigenous affairs role, joining Labor condemnation.

Good afternoon, readers. A Liberal MP has refused to endorse Tony Abbott in his new indigenous affairs role, joining Labor condemnation.

Indigenous Liberal MP Ken Wyatt. Picture: AAP

Abbott warned he ‘could have a problem’

Indigenous Liberal MP Ken Wyatt has refused to endorse Tony Abbott for the role of special indigenous affairs envoy, warning if the former prime minister did not work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people he would “have a problem” with the position.

“Tony has been offered something by the Prime Minister, whether I agree or disagree doesn’t matter. If Tony accepts that then he’s going to have to work with Aboriginal people, listen to them, accept their perspectives and then bring that back,” Mr Wyatt told 6PR radio.

Labor senator Patrick Dodson earlier savaged Mr Abbott’s record on Aboriginal issues saying it’s “ignorant, hopeless and frankly offensive”

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