Victoria will establish Australia's first formal truth-telling process for Aboriginal Victorians in a 'historic' move some community members have waited decades for.
Victoria will establish Australia's first formal truth-telling process for Aboriginal Victorians in a "historic" move some community members have waited decades for.
First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria co-chairs Marcus Stewart and Geraldine Atkinson have applauded the move. "We cannot change history, but what we can do is we can change the way, and how, history is viewed, and that's what we're out to achieve."Formal truth-telling processes, often called truth commissions, have been held in more than 30 countries, including South Africa, Canada and New Zealand.
Victoria's truth and justice process might cover Australia's frontier wars and massacres of Indigenous people during the colonial period, but also more recent issues including deaths in custody and the overrepresentation of Aboriginal people in the justice system.
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