In Australia, the transitional justice efforts of the Yoorrook Truth Commission are facing a difficult political context. And this regressive trend seems to be growing.
The worst aspect of Victoria's Yoorrook Commission is its defined purpose to ascribe all blame to 'the impact of colonialism', rather than the persisting deficiencies in traditional Aboriginal society. A failure to take note of, let alone examine, these gross, often horrifying, shortcomings can only produce findings written in the ink of obfuscation and deception
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