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