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Recognising community truth-telling: An exploration of local truth-telling in Australia

24 Aug 2023

However, the continued incidence of vandalism of memorials, sculptures and sites of remembrance indicates that the recognition of both the violence of colonial history and the contribution of First Nations communities remains disputed by some. [...] The study was also overseen by an advisory to enable the study to investigate how reconciliation group of senior Aboriginal stakeholders who were and truth-telling are understood by social actors consulted around the overall conceptualisation of themselves, to identify and map the commonalities the project, the categorisation and grouping of truth- and discontinuities between and within Australian. [...] Build off key documents of truth: truth-telling must The analysis of the case studies that we documented be informed by the work that has already been enabled us to make a series of findings about the done, in particular, the United Nations Declaration diversity and creativity of truth-telling that is taking of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Uluru place in Australia, the impact of this t. [...] In sites such as Appin and past, were expressed in the so-called ‘history wars’ Kukenarap there has been productive engagement of the 1990s, which followed the publication of the between the descendants of the perpetrators and Bringing Them Home report on the forcible removal victims of colonial violence, leading to new levels of of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from understanding. [...] The case study on Peoples, the number of deaths and massacres on the the massacre at Muralug in the Torres Strait provides colonial frontier and the number of children forcibly a unique insight into the particularities of the colonial removed (Maddison and Shepherd, 2014).
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144
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Australia