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.
What’s the point of these “grievance studies”? Mr Stuart says “you can’t change history but you can change the way it is viewed” it’s already viewed negatively. Focusing on the positive contributions of aboriginal people to the “Australian” identity will be much more effective.
How many millions to make this stop? If you don’t know the ‘truth’ by now. 🤦🏻♂️
I fail to see how you can tell truth via chinese whispers.
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Waste of time - Victoria has more pressing problems.
Yay more tax money you dont deserve. Bunch of lazy prics if you ask me
It cracks me up to see all the right wing assholes throwing up their hands and stamping their feet as if this take away something from them 😂
Sick of these headlines are you? WHERE IS THE TREATY! NZ did it and moved on. But here in AU You won’t stop seeing this type of news until you recognise you haven’t done enough and do the damn work! This should have happened 100 yrs ago!
AMAZING NEWS!!! The truth will finally set us free!
Call me cynical, but I expect this will create jobs and income streams for Aboriginal and white consultants, lawyers and public servants . But people in communities, especially women & children in remote areas, won't get any benefit from this.
LOL ''aboriginal'
CAN WE HAVE A TRUTH AND JUSTICE COMMISION FOR AVERAGE VICTORIANS AFFECTED BY THE INCOMPETENCE AND BRANCH STACKING BY LABOR , IT CAN LOOK INTO ALL THE FAILED BUSINESSES CAUSED BY LOCK DOWNS REQUIRED AGAIN AFTER INCOMPETENCE BY GOVT....
How much is this byzantine 'assembly' going to cost the taxpayer? More publicly funded junkets for privileged white bureaucrats masquerading as Aborigines. Victoria's a dog's breakfast that's been regurgitated.
Than more will vote meaning you're fucked Murdoch Australia will save the ABC
Chairman Dan the magician.
Bring it on - let’s tell the truth. But that’s got to be the full truth - be careful what youvwush for
This great nation built on gimmicash has a history of giving people cash that are just sitting around waiting for cash. David attenborough did a documentary and found the gimmicash started around the time people invented cash.
I was brought here long time ago. I have felt guilt because of my white great great great whatevers and I'm super upset about the boats. Pygmies that got killed but most of all the white as poltergeist Aboriginals burning our nation's flag because of gimmie cash.
Can we also have an indigenous committee to address domestic violence, child molesting, crime within the Aboriginal community!! They don’t ever come out say we have issues.. everybody else fault.!!!
I dont understan this new global tendency of playing the victim: LGTB, blacks, aboriginal... Overcome your mental disorder and pathological victimisation! 🇦🇺
More honest tax payers money to another cause
What a thoroughly ridiculous phrase 'going forward' is! Whoever first coined it needs a real good hiding.
No idea what this is, helping to defeat COVID so I guess I'll find out someday 🤷♂️
That's fine but do not blame the current population for things done in the past by others. Remember if it wasn't the English who settled in Australia it would have been the Dutch, French, etc, but it would not have been the Chinese because they feared the giant women of the south
Another wedge hammered into society not to mend but to further alienate, to push the agenda to rewrite history, stupid motherf;&/kers want to regress not evolve to make the future a better place.
Nothing will change.
June 5th 2025: The Truth Commission has decided that refusing to kneel in front of a Person of Colour upon request will incur a 6 month prison sentence, this is the ONLY way to truth and reconciliation. Long live Comrade Daniel Andrews.
'Aboriginal Victorians' ! Is one now to assume that those indigenous folk residing within Victoria fully recognise the legitimacy of the State of Victoria?
Smoke and mirrors
The truth - aboriginals commit crime and; Justice - they go to jail
Its General Dan Cluster from Cluster's Last Stand!!!!
I'll put in a way everyone will understand , THE TAIL IS WAGGING THE DOG . This BLM stuff can be dealt with in ways that wont endanger the larger community and what they are doing is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS DURING A PANDEMIC that is spread with a Ro = 5.7 by simply breathing.
I thought that we already have a truth and justice process for Australians.
Will go the same way as apologies, ATSIC, harbour bridge walks and the dodo
Anyone know what that means ?
What a waste of time, money and energy
Meanwhile look not addressing the real issue
As challenging as this truth is going to be, it will provide an opportunity for us to heal and unite, and create a future Victoria where we can all belong
Aborigines will NEVER stop whining. auspol
What does this even mean?
The grandfather was involved in the removal of Aboriginal children. To his deathbed he maintained that it was the right thing to do given the conditions the children were found in. Nothing I read to him out of a paper wavered his opinion. So. Whose truth?
Historic, not historical.
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Ok so we’re going back to dig up the graves of the predecessors to deal justice. Wake up idiots. The only way is forward.
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I'm not supportive of historical revisionistism . Learn from the past , put plagues near these 'offensive' the abo'l millenials to give the abo'l context along side the european colonial context . Let them put up statues to their own heroes if they must. Stop BS and protests.
Is the truth going to go back further than 200 years? I bet not.
More money
Reckon they need to concentrate on the shit fight that is Rona 19, never mind anything else the mo... But your race driven ABCs agenda never stops hey?
I was somewhat supportive of improving the lot for dinkydie indigenous australian . I'm pretty miffed with how black millenials are behaving (mass rallies all over the place + essentially endangering us all) . I wont support PC BS.
$40 billion a year, I will identify as black to get some tax back .
Translation : Bad Whitey
And in a room out the back they will be holding the branch stacking inquiry... some time in the next decade 😙
Isn't corona a thing in Victoria?
Too bad for the intersectional types who don't believe in objective truth.
I see the article has been edited during the day to remove the first step of considering compensation - would be nice to think that means this will focus on solutions going forward rather than blame and money for past injustices.
More free stuff eh? My god these are the most self entitled, privileged people on earth. GravyTrain
The only truth as far as I’m concerned is that we start empowering people rather than inciting this victim mentality and division. The outcomes are predictable - promoting more excuses to blame others rather than take responsibility for their own lives & future.
Okay, now can the same TRUTH and JUSTICE process applied to the 'covid19 plandemic scare scam' instead of hoodwinking the public and further destroying the socioeconomic well being of society in Victoria mindlessly.
White lawyers gonna make bank on this junket.
A wonderful step, and long overdue.
I was somewhat support of improving the lot for dinkydie indigenous australia , but I'm pretty miffed with how black millenials are behaving (mass rallies all over the place + essentially endangering us all) , + I'm not supportive of revisionistism . I wont support PC BS..
Yeah this is going to end well.
Are we also getting one for how the convicts were treated? Who is in charge of finding this truth?
A brilliant idea. Let's bring into light the many, many legislative benefits indigenous people enjoy over non indigenous people. This is going to be like when google did an internal review of underpaying women, and realized that men were underpaid. I cannot wait.
Aborigines to get more government money.
Just a distraction from DanAndrews to divert attention from his COVID19Vic debacle InsidersABC SkyNewsAust DanielAndrewsMP
Must expose a few of them as frauds. Another ABC masterpiece 🤦♀️
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Why are we pandering to these minority groups that do not represent modern Australian society.
more bullshit
Sounds like a load of pc s**t . Get over it , colonised by a ragtag crew of convicts. women and children .
So whats next for Victoria under Chairman Dan, Sharia law ?
Obviously the extream right wing are piling on this post. They seem terrified. I would like to express my approval for this process going forward and I do hope it mends many communities.
Less than 1% of the Victorian population, we’ve got world pandemic going on and Chairman Dan is worrying about this crap, no wonder the state is falling apart.
Yawn
Truth? Careful what you wish for.
Quick Dan, find a distraction.
It sounds like a leftist creation of new versions of history. The truth is the truth. It isn't a leftist convenient truth.
Who do you support ABCAustralia ? What a historical day as they spread the coronavirus while every one else was obeying the Socialist Regime of the CCP's Comrade DanielAndrewsMP DictatorDan ……………….
Who really takes aboriginals serious? They're a joke of a race, degenerate race.
How about a victory parade?🤡
Truth of CCPVirus is about to come out! Also included the most important protection advices for every one: 2 meter distance, 70% alcohol, surgical mask. theWhistleblowerMovement
Is this to check the percentage of aboriginal heritage one has to distribute the welfare based on this?
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