First Nations people have made a plea for ‘truth-telling’. By reckoning with its past, Australia can finally help improve our future

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"Australia has never been good at listening to Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people. Despite the truths that have already been told in processes
like the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody or the Inquiry into
the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their
Families, time and again governments have ignored recommendations designed to
address the impacts of Australia’s settler-colonial past and present.

State refusals to respond to truth have led to renewed calls for processes that
will detail the impacts of colonisation in the everyday lives of Indigenous
people. These calls were an important part of the Uluru Statement from the
Heart, which sought “the establishment of a First Nations Voice enshrined in
the Constitution”, complimented by “a Makarrata Commission to supervise a
process of agreement-making between governments and First Nations and
truth-telling about our history”.

As legal scholars Gabrielle Appleby and Megan Davis have commented, the call
for truth-telling in the Uluru Statement is just one part of a wider call for
structural reform intended to ensure improvement in the lives of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander people."

Via Muse.

Cheers,
       *** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/            Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics