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Truth-telling commission calls for redress, financial compensation for Aboriginal Victorians
- Redress for Aboriginal Victorians should be provided through statewide and local treaties for historical injustices, according to the final report of Victoria’s truth-telling inquiry.
- The report states that redress should include monetary compensation, tax relief, and restitution of ownership rights to the First Peoples.
- Other recommendations call for negotiations to establish funding streams with the First Peoples Assembly of Victoria.
- Premier Jacinta Allan thanked the commission and stated that the government would consider the findings and recommendations.
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Stealing Australia and Buying New Zealand
A Review of Empire and the Making of Native Title: Sovereignty, Property and Native People by Bain Attwood, 458 pages, Cambridge University Press (August 2020).King Charles recently raised eyebrows by making a land acknowledgement in his opening speech to the newly elected Canadian parliament: “I would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg people.” What is perhaps most surprising about th…
The fight for Australia’s soil
Yesterday, Victoria’s parliament received the final report of Australia’s first-ever formal truth-telling inquiry. The four-year commission, which culminated last week with an organised march across hundreds of miles across Victoria to commemorate the occasion, was tasked with understanding the legacy of colonisation on the state’s Aboriginal communities. Conducting interviews and collecting evidence, it’s revealed a shocking range of abuses agai
Radio France Internationale
For the first time, an investigation concludes the genocide of the indigenous people of Australia by European settlers. Mass killings, children torn from their families, sexual violence, environmental degradation and culture... It was the Yoorrook Justice Commission of the State of Victoria, in the south-east of the country, that published this investigation report with about 100 recommendations, Tuesday, July 1. After the conclusions, comes the…
In its conclusions presented to Parliament on Tuesday, July 1, regarding the treatment of Aboriginal people in Victoria since the 18th century, an Australian commission also advocates financial compensation and land restitution.
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