Montyâs last dance tells us about his home - and ours
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He danced as if there were no tomorrow. His legs pumped and his arms whirled. His body jerked and he seemed unable to stop.
The people of the little town of Heywood in far south-west Victoria turned out to watch this wild show in their main street, hooting and laughing and urging the dancer on.
Monty Foster at a family wedding.
I was a mere child on that day in the 1950s, in town with my Dad for supplies, but the sight of this manâs abandon never left me.
What Australia s first Aboriginal truth and justice commission might look like
FriFriday 11
DecDecember 2020 at 10:20pm
First Peoples Assembly co-chairs Geraldine Atkinson and Marcus Stewart say a truth-telling commission is high on the agenda for 2021.
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Sometime next year, there s a good chance Australia will see the start of its first formal truth and justice commission into the ongoing impact of colonisation on Aboriginal communities.
In its final meeting for the year, the assembly resolved to continue consulting with elders and the community on what that commission should look like.
International examples show truth-telling processes are rarely straightforward and are never the final step in the process of reconciling a history of human rights abuses with the present.