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Truth-Telling and Healing
Tasmanian Aboriginal Truth-telling and Healing Commissioners will be established as part of the Tasmanian Government’s commitment to Closing the Gap.
The commissioners will begin a Tasmanian Aboriginal-led journey toward Truth-telling, healing, and relationship building with Tasmanian Aboriginal people and the broader Tasmanian community.
The Government will focus on actions that prioritise education, storytelling and knowledge sharing, to ensure greater community reconciliation can be achieved.
The truth-telling and healing process will preserve Tasmanian Aboriginal history and storytelling for future generations; provide Tasmanian Aboriginal people, including Elders, families, children, and young people with a safe and culturally respectful platform to speak their truth, and allow healing to begin.
The Government will work with Tasmanian Aboriginal people on the process to appoint the Commissioners and the next steps, noting this will be led and driven by Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
About the Aboriginal Advisory Group
In 2021, Tasmanian Aboriginal people welcomed the announcement by then Premier the Hon. Peter Gutwein that a Truth-Telling and Treaty process would commence in Tasmania.
The consultations with Tasmanian Aboriginal people led to 24 recommendations in the Pathway to Truth-Telling and Treaty. Read the Pathway to Truth-Telling and Treaty - Report to Premier Peter Gutwein (PDF 4.1MB).
An Aboriginal Advisory Group (the Group) was established to deliver strategic, authentic cultural advice to inform decisions, and whole of government policy, in relation to a process towards attaining truth-telling and treaty with Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
The membership of the Group was established based on nominations from the Aboriginal community. The current members of the Group are:
- Mr Nick Cameron;
- Mr Rodney Dillon;
- Mr Dave mangenner Gough
- Mrs Maxine Roughley
Meeting communiques:
2023
- AAG Communique Inaugural Meeting 2023 (PDF, 86.5kKB)
- AAG Communique Inaugural Meeting (MS Word)
- AAG Communique Second Meeting (PDF, 114.6KB)
- AAG Communique Second Meeting (MS Word)
- AAG Communique Third Meeting (PDF, 192.1KB)
- AAG Communique Third Meeting (MS Word)
- AAG Communique Fourth Meeting (PDF, 136.7KB)
- AAG Communique Fourth Meeting (MS Word)
- AAG Communique Fifth Meeting (PDF, 101.7KB)
- AAG Communique Fifth Meeting (MS Word)
- AAG Communique Sixth Meeting (PDF, 170.8KB)
- AAG Communique Sixth Meeting (MS Word)
2024
- AAG Communique Seventh Meeting 2024 (PDF, 163.5KB)
- AAG Communique Seventh Meeting (MS Word)
- AAG Communique Eighth Meeting (PDF, 217.3KB)
- AAG Communique Eighth Meeting (MS Word)
- AAG Communique Ninth Meeting (PDF, 113.2KB)
2025
The Group will deliver its final report to the Government in mid-2025.