As we make progress on an Indigenous Voice to parliament, the modern day storyteller is a bold reminder of what speaking our stories could achieve
‘Our greatest storytellers give us words to describe how we feel … They provide us with a language. Archie Roach did that.’‘Our greatest storytellers give us words to describe how we feel … They provide us with a language. Archie Roach did that.’When Archie Roach released Charcoal Lane, the broader Australian community carried a large secret.
Our greatest storytellers give us words to describe how we feel. They articulate our emotions. They provide us with a language.. More than the legacy of his songbook – the music and lyrics that will be their own eternal life – he gave us the gift of real human truth. The Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission’s Bringing them Home report was tabled in parliament in 1997. Its strength lay in the extensive first-hand accounts contained throughout the report, including from the families of those who were taken away. These haunting, powerful testimonies assisted in showing the depth of devastation caused by the policy and the systemic abuse in all its forms of the children who were taken.
This was done through a formal response that sought to once again remove the voices of the stolen generations’ survivors and their families by saying it was only one in 10 children who were taken away – an attempt to shift attention away from the stories back to the cold statistics.
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