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The prison of the past

Paul Muldoon on the Yoo-rrook Justice Commission
The ABR Podcast 30 June 2021

The prison of the past

Paul Muldoon on the Yoo-rrook Justice Commission
The ABR Podcast 30 June 2021

In 2020, the Victorian government declared it would establish a Truth and Justice process to ‘recognise historic wrongs and address ongoing injustices for Aboriginal Victorians’. The Yoo-rrook Justice Commission was announced in March this year as the governing body of this process, one to be led by five commissioners and invested with the powers of a royal commission.

In today’s episode, Paul Muldoon reads his essay from the July issue, ‘The prison of the past’, which considers the future challenges and complexities facing the commission. As he writes: ‘In truth and reconciliation, “healing” has come to assume a central importance. But exactly who or what is being healed?’


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