IN FULL: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese delivers keynote address at Garma

Описание: On Saturday, there were hopes from some among the Indigenous community that the prime minister would endorse a truth-telling process in a broad sense — which would come as a relief to advocates who have been pushing for reconciliation to include a reckoning over Australia’s history and a process of confronting the injustices of the past.

“I know there are members of the Yoorrook Justice Commission here at Garma this weekend,” Albanese said in an address.

“Their Commission has spent the last four years recording the testimony of thousands of people across Victoria. Reflecting on the wrongs of the past, sharing the pain their families and ancestors suffered, as a result of dispossession and discrimination. Policies and practices built on exclusion.”

Albanese acknowledged Indigenous people were cut off from culture, Country, historical place, land as well as justice and opportunity.

“As a nation, we are still coming to terms with the full truth and toll of this exclusion," he said.

"Even as we continue on the long journey of understanding our past, we must meet our responsibility to the future.

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