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Indigenous rights in Australia: the role of King Charles III of the United Kingdom and the imprint of the Commonwealth. Photo: King Charles observes a performance by an Aboriginal group.
Indigenous rights in Australia: the rôle of the Crown
28 October 2024 by Philip Murphy
On a visit to Australia, King Charles III was challenged by a senator of Aboriginal origin, Lidia Thorpe, who accused Great Britain of having perpetrated a “genocide” in her country, and called for recognition of the rights of Fir [...]
Art installation in Australia representing the aboriginal flag Against tide, Yoorrook Commission goes on
9 November 2023 by Maxim Shanahan
One year after the start of a unique Australian truth-telling commission run by First Peoples in the state of Victoria, known as the Yoorrook Commission, urgent recommendations have been made to authorities after hearings which gr [...]
Aboriginal children in Australia - Yoorrook Commission reveals alarming colonization figures Yoorrook commission: the government admits “a shameful system”
2 May 2023 by Maxim Shanahan
In Australia’s state of Victoria, the Yoorrook Commission reconvened on April 27 for a further round of hearings in which public servants, government ministers and senior police officers are to be questioned over the failure to ad [...]
Aboriginal Children of Australia - Ballarat Orphanage Yoorrook Truth-Commission: Cold light on the child protection system
6 March 2023 by Maxim Shanahan
The Yoorrook Truth Commission, in Victoria state, southeast Australia, restarted on Wednesday March 1 with a third round of hearings centred on truth-telling about the removal of the Aboriginal children from their families and chi [...]
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Eleanor A. Bourke, Chair of the Yoorrook Justice Commission in Australia.
3 February 2023 by Maxim Shanahan
Continued violence of colonisation exposed before Australia’s Yoorrook Commission At the national level, Australia has struggled to hold a truth, reconciliation and reparations process on the violence committed against Indigenous peoples. The state of Victoria, in South-East Australia, wants to reverse this cou [...]