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Recognising the power of community truth-telling - ADI Policy Briefing Papers

30 Aug 2023

Eighty three percent of the general about how truth-telling could be progressed in the community and 87% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait light of the research. [...] The Queensland government is using truth-telling to help inform the path to treaty and in Tasmania the implementation of the Pathway to Truth-telling and Treaty report is currently being negotiated. [...] “Reconciliation happens every time we are there because of the fact that is Aboriginal and non Aboriginal people coming together to acknowledge the horror of an event and to celebrate the continuing culture.” Ann Madsen (Winga Myamly Reconciliation Group Member) 4 Findings A rich and diverse community Truth-telling is about recognising the self- engagement with the past determination and contribut. [...] It can also be a perseverance and innovation in proactively powerful reassertion of First Nations identity and advocating for repatriation, renaming, reparation, self-determination, countering stereotypes of First commemoration, public art and education, and Nations communities as disempowered victims and other forms of recognition and truth-telling, often the lack of representation of their contr. [...] It seeks to highlight research has identified hundreds of such initiatives the roles of First Nations Peoples in resistance across the country, demonstrating the enormous against colonialism, their acts of bravery and sacrifice diversity and creativity with which the legacy of and their contribution to local communities and colonialism can be acknowledged and its harmful economies.
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