Inside Australia’s first truth-telling commission
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Victoria’s Yoorrook Justice Commission will soon wind up its formal hearings, with its final recommendations to the state government due next year. As a number of other states plan their own truth-telling processes, Yoorrook’s chair, Wamba Wamba and Wergaia elder Prof Eleanor Bourke, speaks to Jane Lee about how the conversation on Indigenous Australians is changing, and the value of truth-telling
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