Towards Truth
Media and commentary on Towards Truth, our innovative truth telling partnership with the UNSW Indigenous Law Centre.
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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.