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As Victoria forges ahead with Australia s first formal truth-telling process, the father of reconciliation, Labor senator Patrick Dodson, says the process is in the slow lane federally.
Yesterday, the Senate voted down his motion for a Joint Select Committee to inquire into the truth telling and treaty making elements of Makarrata as called for in the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
He says that calls for a truth telling commission are not going to go away, and Australia, as a mature, modern democracy, should face up to it .
Guest: Patrick Dodson, WA Labor Senator
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TROY Cassar-Daley has never cried as much as he did recording the songs for his new record The World Today. You can hear the croaky rasp that grips the throat after sobbing on songs about the death of his father Tony, who took his life after suffering two strokes in 2019. Or the love song dedications to his radio announcer wife Laurel Edwards, written as they endured a rough patch in their marriage. And again in the songs the award-winning artist penned for his family about the scourge of Indigenous incarceration in Australia and the realities of life after prison. Â Â Cassar-Daley turned to music when he found himself stuck in a dark place. Picture: Tim Hunter.
TROY Cassar-Daley has never cried as much as he did recording the songs for his new record The World Today. You can hear the croaky rasp that grips the throat after sobbing on songs about the death of his father Tony, who took his life after suffering two strokes in 2019. Or the love song dedications to his radio announcer wife Laurel Edwards, written as they endured a rough patch in their marriage. And again in the songs the award-winning artist penned for his family about the scourge of Indigenous incarceration in Australia and the realities of life after prison. Â Â Cassar-Daley turned to music when he found himself stuck in a dark place. Picture: Tim Hunter.