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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.
The loss of Aboriginal siginficant and sacred sites across the continent has prompted calls for stronger cultural heritage protections and a national standard to keep the locations preserved.
In regional Victoria, the Eastern Maar and Djab Wurrung people have been devastated over harm to a 1500 year-old stone arrangement at Lake Bolac over Easter.
In South Australia, mining activities have threatened Lake Torres, another well known culturally significant Aboriginal site.
Keith Thomas from the South Australian Native Title Services recently told NITV News that a national approach would give proper recogntiion to Traditional Owners There should be greater recognition of Aboriginal culture through all of Australia, said Mr Thomas.
Ideally it works, but too often itâs a disaster
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Ideally it works, but too often itâs a disaster
As someone who was active in off-campus teaching for some 30 of a 50-year career in higher education, and with awards and media coverage for my innovations, I am nevertheless concerned at proposals such as the use of pre-recorded lectures combined with a weekly or fortnightly seminar. This strategy can work where lecture equivalents are updated, seminar sizes are limited to 30 or so well-prepared students, and they take place in purpose-designed classrooms with movable seating to allow for break-out groups.
Aboriginal Victoria has begun investigating potential disturbance to the Kuyang stone arrangement at Lake Bolac.
Authorised officers attended the site along the Glenelg Highway this week and met with the caretaker of the land to discuss the next steps.
Local Indigenous Elders have been gathering nearby, concerned about the several metres of rocks that have been removed.
Aboriginal Victoria said the age of the stone arrangements was difficult to determine, but some may be thousands of years old.
A farmer who partially destroyed a Victorian Aboriginal site near Lake Bolac says it was a huge mistake
Source: NITV/The Point