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Truth-telling paves the way to a brighter future
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Ian HammChairman of the First Nations Foundation
May 16, 2021 â 5.30am
May 16, 2021 â 5.30am
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If Victoriaâs story is a book, then there is a whole chapter which is the Indigenous experience â the full story of which has never been told. But the recent launch of Victoriaâs truth-telling commission â the Yoo-rrook Justice Commission â offers the chance to tell it, to ensure that we fill in the gaps of the story of Victoria.
Aunty Geraldine Atkinson of the First Peoplesâ Assembly with acting Premier James Merlino and (right) Marcus Stewart at the launch of the Yoo-rrook Justice Commission earlier this year.
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Regular Drive contributor Ian Hamm is a Yorta Yorta man and a member of Victoria s Stolen Generations.
He said the commission could help complete that unwritten chapter of the book of Victoria.
Not knowing who his parents were meant for the first twenty years of my life, there was this unformed cloud, You are in that position of not knowing where you re from, and not knowing what being Aboriginal meant, Mr Hamm said.
The First Nations Foundation chair believes a commission is a really important part of making Victoria whole.
Duration: 11min 55sec
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Australians all let us rejoice. Ah, the national anthem, a song we all know pretty well. But now it s a little bit different. For we are one and free. Did you spot the change? I ll play it again in case you missed it. For we are one and free.
Yup over the holidays our Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, decided to change the line we are YOUNG and free to we are ONE and free. It might not sound like much. But it s a change people have been asking for, well, for a while now. Because while Australia the country is pretty young, the continent has a history that goes back more than 65,000 years and many people felt the lyric ignored Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.