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An Aboriginal elder says a blast of verbal abuse from Greens senator Lidia Thorpe during a meeting at Parliament House left her physically ill, shaken and requiring medical attention.
First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria co-chair Aunty Geraldine Atkinson is seeking a formal apology from Senator Thorpe – an Indigenous senator in her first term – for her conduct during a meeting to discuss Victoria’s treaty process at Parliament House in Canberra last Tuesday.
Co-chair of the First Peoples Assembly of Victoria, Aunty Geraldine Atkinson.
According to a letter of complaint Ms Atkinson sent to Senate President Scott Ryan and the Greens leader Adam Bandt, Senator Thorpe began the meeting by telling Ms Atkinson they were not friends and that she did not respect her, accusing her of holding high-paid roles in organisations that did not benefit the Indigenous community.
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After the Yoo-rrook Truth and Justice Commission, Aboriginal people are not obliged to forgive
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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.
It s a recognition that without truth, without justice you can t have a treaty.
He said more than 30 countries, including Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, had undergone a similar truth-telling process. The true side of history
The commission s terms of reference were developed in partnership with the state s First Peoples Assembly. It s hard to describe what this will mean for our old people, our ancestors, our elders who have fought decades and decades for this, assembly co-chair Marcus Stewart said. We now have the opportunity to tell the true side of history - not a side that s been dismissed, not a side that s been denied.