Amid heightened scrutiny on community cohesion, a new report says 60 per cent of Indigenous Australians have major concerns about a Makaratta process.
Already a subscriber?Indigenous Australians say they are worried that truth-telling risks inflaming community division and causing Indigenous suffering to be discredited or undermined, in a warning over the next step inAmid heightened concern about community cohesion, and six months on from the bitter Voice to parliament campaign, a report by Reconciliation Australia and the University of NSW found the majority of non-Indigenous people have no sophisticated knowledge of the treatment of...
That could come in the form of engagement with Indigenous communities and sharing knowledge on topics such as land care. The report notes that “workplaces can provide a venue where people who would otherwise not go to a community-based event can be exposed to and participate in truth-telling”.Truth-telling is a key tenet of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, supported in full by the federal government.
The report found just 6 per cent of non-Indigenous respondents had participated in a truth-telling activity in the past 12 months. That is despite Indigenous people seeing truth-telling as a form of or pathway to justice, as part of healing and of sharing Indigenous history and culture. Reconciliation Australia chief executive Karen Mundine said there was an urgent need for truth-telling.
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