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Rev David James Fotheringham, Moderator of the Uniting Church, Synod of #Victoria and Tasmania opens by saying: "the Uniting Church acknowledges that it is a beneficiary of the dispossession of land from #FirstPeoples and that historical Crown grants of land were made with no 1/
"and now repudiated doctrine of discovery and its outworking in the morally bankrupt ideology of terra nullius." 4/4 #firstpeoples #firstnations #victoria
Sharon Smith is a descendant of the Wiradjuri people of western NSW. She was born in Erskineville in 1957, the fourth of Eleanor and Matthew James Smith’s five children. bit.ly/3Ju4SJZ #Art #FirstPeoples #ArtistProfile
This morning's #yoorrook hearing with representatives of the Catholic, Uniting and Anglican Churches has begun with opening statements. 1/ #firstpeoples #firstnations #victoria #church #history
The Right Reverend Dr Richard Treloar, Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Gippsland says: "Gippsland Anglicans lament that our colonial history includes atrocities committed against #FirstPeoples and that some of these heinous but no longer unspeakable acts are likely to 2/
"This premier, is a double dispossession" Yoorrook Deputy Chair Travis Lovett states in his opening remarks to Victorian @JacintaAllanMP at yesterday's Land, Sky and Water Hearings. Follow Yoorrook to stay updated on First Peoples true history. #FirstPeoples #JacintaAllan
Watch Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan tell Yoorrook commissioners of her distress at learning details of the brutality inflicted on First Peoples during colonisation. #firstpeoples #victoria #colonisation #truthtelling
That concludes today's hearing. Thank you for following along. #yoorrook hearings will resume on Wednesday 1 May when representatives from the Anglican, Uniting and Catholic churches will appear before the Commission. #firstpeoples #firstnations #victoria
"I felt deeply privileged to have that experience last week and I would love my kids and lots of other children and families to be able to be part of those conversations." 3/3 #firstpeoples #victoria #truthtelling
"and #treaty is that we can share in this celebration of #FirstPeoples' culture, and that is something that I am particularly energised by, the opportunity to broaden those experiences for all #Victorians. 2/
Premier Allan: "Want what I see as the legacy of this part of the process is to be the writing of the fundamental #truth of the #history of our state that that truth to be told in classrooms across the state." #firstpeoples #firstnations #victoria
Premier Allan: "We are endeavouring to address through #treaty...the fact that sovereignty was never ceded, that land dispossession has contributed to ongoing injustice and how the pathway of treaty will address that and make change into the future." #firstpeoples #victoria
"when #FirstPeoples are empowered to take control of their affairs." Read the Premier's full statement: yoorrookjusticecommission.org.au/wp-content/upl…
Premier Allan: "...I will acknowledge the statement that is very difficult for #FirstPeoples to purchase land on the open market. That prime land that you spoke to...good land is often associated with a good water source and the value goes together so I do acknowledge that."
"that the squatters sought out and they were the first to be taken, and they are now the most expensive in the state and is it the case that #FirstPeoples in #Victoria have to get used to the concept that they will never get the best of their lands back?" 2/
Counsel Assisting McAvoy: "Premier, you would accept that it is no coincidence that the lands which were [#firstpeoples] villages & ceremony and activities, ritual, were also the land that were in the best locations, closest to water and animals and they are the very locations 1
"our community and I just want government to reflect on that." 2/2 #firstpeoples #firstnational #victoria #springst
"there has been a lot of best endeavours, a lot of good intent but that good intent hasn't necessarily had the right practices of particularly self determination embedded in them." #firstpeoples #firstnations #victoria #springst
Counsel Assisting Tony McAvoy: "The State of #victoria has received many, many times over the benefits of that process of dispossession, has it not?" Premier Allan: "Yes, it has." #firstpeoples #truthtelling #victoria #springst
"and it brings me a sense of shame and distress that this was done - this was done by people taking all in the pursuit of taking land off #FirstPeoples and...to know that the consequence of that was the impact of death and dispossession for First Peoples going forward." 3/3