It comes as Senator for Victoria Lidia Thorpe, then Greens MP for Northcote, called in 2018 for \u201cfunding (to) be provided for a process of truth telling about the true history of Victoria<\/a>\u201d, as truth-telling needs to be a central part of any Treaty process. The Greens today welcomed the announcement of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Victoria – a historical opportunity for First Nations people to tell the truth of the history of violent dispossession from their land. It comes as Senator for Victoria Lidia Thorpe, then Greens MP for Northcote, called in 2018 for \u201cfunding (to) be … Continue reading “Greens welcome Truth Commission, say truth-telling must be central to Treaty process”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTruth and Justice Commissions have been held across the world in the aftermath of grave and often racially motivated injustices being carried out by governments.
\nThe Greens believe the forthcoming Elders Council is well-placed to provide cultural governance and oversight over this important process, as First Nations people must be given complete agency over how the Commission is run. The Commission must also be representative of all 38 nations in this state.
\nIf successful, a Truth Commission of this kind could also set an important precedent for similar Commissions in other jurisdictions, and at the national level.
\n\u201cWe can\u2019t\u00a0 move forward as a country until we reckon with the truth about our history,\u201d Senator Thorpe said today.
\n\u201cWhen the colonisers invaded, there was a war on these lands – a war that hasn\u2019t ended. But we won\u2019t achieve peace without truth. The announcement of a Truth Commission today is a historic opportunity to bring people together to open up the possibility of a genuine Treaty process, not just in Victoria, but across this country.\u201d
\nSenator Thorpe also reaffirmed the Greens\u2019 earlier calls for\u00a0a moratorium on all sales of Crown land until a genuine Treaty has been signed<\/a>.
\n\u201cVictoria\u2019s treaty process has been a pretty token gesture so far. If Labor is serious about justice for our first peoples, they will also agree to a moratorium on logging while the Commission does its work. You can\u2019t be serious about telling the truth about our ongoing connection to these lands and waters, as you keep destroying it,\u201d Senator Thorpe added.
\n\u201cFor too long the history of this Country has been white-washed, and the voices of First Nations people have been relegated to the margins,\u201d Leader of the Victorian Greens, Samantha Ratnam MLC said today.
\n\u201cHopefully this Commission is the first of many steps towards changing that. This is a direct result of years of community campaigning for truth-telling and First Nations justice,\u201d Ms Ratnam added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"