At last year’s Garma Festival the Prime Minister stopped short of recommitting to the commission, and funding set aside for Makarrata in previous budgets was reallocated towards Closing the Gap measures.

“We do talk about this when we come to Garma, but now is the time to see action and I do want to read the Yoorrook Commission report and see what we can do at a federal level.”

Senator McCarthy said her government would be looking closely at the recommendations.

“This is something that I think the Australian Parliament will be watching very closely, we sit in a couple of weeks time.”

Queensland’s Labor government also began a truth-telling inquiry last year, but the process was scraped by the Liberal National Party after winning the state election.