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  • Tue. Nov 5th, 2024

‘What a historic day’: Victoria to develop truth and justice procedure for Aboriginal Victorians

‘What a historic day’: Victoria to develop truth and justice procedure for Aboriginal Victorians

Victoria will develop Australia’s very first formal truth-telling procedure for Aboriginal Victorians in a “historical” move some community members have actually waited years for.

Key points:

  • More than 30 countries, consisting of South Africa, Canada and New Zealand, have established reality commissions
  • The objective is to find and record past misbehaviors of a state
  • First People’s Assembly co-chair explained the move as an “amazing moment in time” for Aboriginal Victorians

The state’s First People’s Assembly, a democratically-elected body established to produce the framework which will assist Victoria’s future treaty negotiations, voted last month to get in touch with the State Federal government to establish a truth and justice commission

Fact commissions intend to discover and record previous injustices, generally by a federal government, and formally recognise their effects.

On Saturday, the Victorian Federal government revealed it would deal with the Assembly to establish the regards to recommendation and how a truth and justice process would operate in Victoria.

First Individuals’s Assembly co-cha

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