After the Yoo-rrook Truth and Justice Commission, Aboriginal people are not obliged to forgive
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MarMarch 2021 at 9:28pm
Aboriginal people are told to forgive and forget, but is that expectation reasonable, asks Stan Grant.
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Who owns truth? And who gets to decide when or how truth is told?
The Yoo-rrook Justice Commission has been praised as an important step to facing up to a brutal history. But is it?
It is certainly a long overdue opportunity for Aboriginal people to tell the truth of massacre and rape and theft of land and segregation and exploitation and stolen children and broken families.