Towards Truth
Media and commentary on Towards Truth, our innovative truth telling partnership with the UNSW Indigenous Law Centre.
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Anita Heiss shows how storytelling can help drive truth-telling
Anita Heiss spoke to Nicole Abadee about how truth-telling about the law has helped shape her fiction.
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ABC News: Aboriginal king honoured in NSW truth-telling launch
An exhibition by Towards Truth highlights the local history of Aboriginal political organising, including the story of King Burraga.
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NIT: Truth-telling exhibition reveals how NSW laws shaped Aboriginal lives
Truth-telling project Towards Truth is holding an exhibition at Hurstville Library on Bidjigal Country until 1 June 2025.
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2SER: Towards Truth Exhibition at the Hurstville Library
Research Manager Elizabeth Clark spoke about a truth-telling exhibition at Hurstville Library on Bidjigal Country until 1 June 2025.
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Custodianship of Country: Towards Truth on First Nations exclusion and resilience
Research from Towards Truth shows how the National Parks system has prevented Aboriginal people from accessing Country.
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Australian Pro Bono Centre: Responding to the Uluru Statement’s call for Truth
JEC Towards Truth Project Manager, Corey Smith and Bridget Cama, from the UNSW ILC discuss the efforts and aims of Towards Truth.
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‘Make them work’ – new research highlights injustice of forced Aboriginal labour
Research from Towards Truth shows how NSW laws and policies enabled a system that exploited Aboriginal people.
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2SER: 100th Anniversary of the Kinchela Boys Home
Towards Truth’s Brydie Zorz attended the anniversary and spoke about her experiences working on truth-telling in the community.
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ABC News: Kinchela Aboriginal Boys Home survivors mark 100 years as push continues for museum
Members of Towards Truth attended the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Kinchela Boys Home, sharing research with the community.
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NIT: Truth-telling can change lives by changing minds
Towards Truth Project Manager Corey Smith explains how truth-telling provides a path to understanding our history.
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Truth shows the way forward
A year on from the Voice referendum campaign, we remain as committed to the Uluru Statement as ever.
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2SER: Voice, Treaty and the Truth and Justice Commission Bill
Ngemba man and Towards Truth Project Manager Corey Smith spoke to 2SER about the potential of the Truth and Justice Commission Bill.
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2SER: Learning the truth about Aboriginal housing in NSW
Towards Truth Director Anna Harding appeared on 2SER Breakfast to discuss the project’s housing research.
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World first truth-telling website wins Australian web innovation award
Towards Truth is a partnership between PIAC and UNSW Indigenous Law Centre.
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NIT: Facing uncomfortable truths is a chance for repair
An opinion piece about truth-telling from Towards Truth’s Sally Treveton, published in the National Indigenous Times.
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2SER: The fight to protect Indigenous fishing rights in NSW
Towards Truth’s Sally Treveton appeared on 2SER Breakfast to discuss Aboriginal fishing rights.
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Telling the Truth about Living on Country
Towards Truth has published research into how fishing and housing law and policies have impacted Aboriginal people.
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Uncovering the truth of our legal history
Towards Truth emerged after First Nations participants at the Uluru Dialogues spoke about the need for Australians to know their history. It responds to the call for Truth made in the Uluru Statement from the Heart. A partnership between the UNSW’s Indigenous Law Centre, led by Scientia Professor Megan Davis, and the Public Interest Advocacy…
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Reconciliation in Action
The recent launch of the website Towards Truth is another step in our nation’s journey to understanding. To understanding the full history of the colonisation of this continent. And just as importantly, to understanding the intergenerational impacts of successive laws and policies on Aboriginal communities, families and individuals. Laws and policies that were targeted and…
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Groundbreaking website to empower First Nations truth telling in Australia
Towards Truth is the first attempt to document and analyse the vast catalogue of laws and government policies that have impacted the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people since colonisation Towards Truth will empower First Nations-led truth telling and help all Australians understand our shared history The Towards Truth website is a partnership…
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New website launched to drive national truth-telling
A new website aimed at empowering Truth-telling in Australia – Towards Truth – was launched Monday morning. Organisers of the site describe it as the first attempt to document and analyse the vast catalogue of laws and government policies that have impacted the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people since colonisation Towards Truth is…
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We all know about the stolen generations. We didn’t always hear about those who opposed the law at the time
[Towards Truth] aims to document all the laws and policies that have affected First Nations people since white colonisation, is a collaboration between the Public Interest Advocacy Centre and the UNSW Indigenous Law Centre led by Cobble Cobble woman Professor Megan Davis. “This project is the first of its kind in Australia,” Davis says. “It’s…
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Towards Truth launched to support First Nations truth telling
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and UNSW Indigenous Law Centre (ILC) are thrilled to launch Towards Truth, a powerful tool to support First Nations-led truth telling in Australia. Created in response to the Uluṟu Statement from the Heart, Towards Truth shows how laws and policies have affected First Nations people since 1788. Introducing Towards…
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‘It wasn’t done in secret – it was in our parliaments’
When our new Prime Minister stepped up to the lectern on election night, his first pledge was, ‘I commit to the Uluru Statement from the heart in full’. It felt like a turning point in our country’s history. I have spent most of my career working on processes that sought to advance truth and accountability.…
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Facing the Truth about Indigenous Australians
The most comprehensive truth-telling project in Australian history is documenting every law and policy that has targeted or had a disproportionate impact – deliberate and accidental – on Indigenous people since 1788 commencing with NSW.
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Law faces the truth on Indigenous impact
Towards Truth’s project co-ordinator is 30-year-old lawyer Corey Smith, a Ngemba man whose work on the database helped him understand the pressures on his own great-grandmother May Biles not to be proud of her Aboriginality.