Reconciliation
Alternative labels
Aboriginal reconciliation
Report
Advancing the Victorian Treaty process: annual report 2024–25
This report provides an update on the progress and achievements of statewide Treaty negotiations between the First Peoples’ Assembly and the Victorian Government. The Victorian Government has been progressing Treaty for nearly a decade. The Treaty negotiations are on track to agree Australia’s first Treaty in 2025.
Fact sheet
Reconciliation snapshot: truth-telling and historical acceptance
Truth-telling supports stronger relationships and mutual respect through shared understandings of Australia's past and how it shapes the present. Truth-telling is fundamental to historical acceptance. This snapshot provides an overview of community attitudes to truth-telling and historical acceptance. It finds that strong support for truth-telling is evident across all states and territories.
Fact sheet
What is truth-telling?
Truth-telling covers a range of activities that engage with a fuller account of Australia’s history and its ongoing impact on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It is fundamental to advancing reconciliation. This fact sheet outlines what truth-telling looks like and what it's about. It is accompanied by two additional resources on participating in and...
Journal article
Truth-telling in the Australian curriculum
Unlike Canada and South Africa, Australia has not completed a national Truth-telling of First Nations histories. As a consequence, the curriculum is at risk of excluding Truth-telling, leading to indoctrination of past injustices as part of school learning. This research critically examines the use of Truth-telling language in the Australian Curriculum.
Report
Yoorrook: truth be told
The final report of the Yoorrook Justice Commission established in May 2021 by the State Government and the First Peoples Assembly of Victoria. Yoorrook was given a unique and important mandate: it was tasked with creating an official public record based on First Peoples’ experiences of systemic injustice since the start of colonisation. This has...