Larrakia traditional owner Richard Fejo says he was sacked from his role as chair of the Australia Day Council NT by Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro this week after criticising the CLP Government, a move he says is part of a “childish strategy” by the government to silence dissenting voices.

Mr Fejo became a vocal critic of the CLP after first resigning from the Darwin Waterfront Corporation board late last year over Ms Finocchiaro’s move to reduce the age of criminal responsibility to 10, and said at a protest in recent weeks that the CLP is “not welcome on Larrakia land” for its policies, which he said unfairly target Indigenous Territorians.

He said on Tuesday his sacking from the Australia Day Council NT also had racial undertones.

“These puppets think like children and my removal is

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