Victoria’s new race-based parliament, The First Nation’s Assembly of Victoria, has voted overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution to establish a ‘Truth-Telling Commission’ as part of the negotiations for “both statewide and local Treaties” with the Victorian government.
Following the model of such bastions of liberty and democracy as South Africa, the Truth-Telling Commission will, according to Co-Chair Marcus Stewart, seek to “change how history is viewed” and will “formally recognise historical wrongs and ongoing injustices” perpetuated by Australia against Aboriginal people.
Daniel Andrews’ government has committed itself to working with the assembly to establish the commission, which will “for the first time”, they say, see a...
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