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. ( Share Print text only Cancel 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.