First Nations led Truth Telling Commission

First Nations led Truth Telling Commission

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FIRST NATIONS LED TRUTH TELLING COMMISSION  

To the Honourable President and members of the Senate in Parliament assembled: 

The petition of the undersigned shows: 

First Nations people across the country have generationally experienced the historical failures of national and state led draconian policies. These failures have caused the injustices and disadvantages faced by First Nations’ peoples to increase significantly and rapidly, and which can only be met through genuine First Nations-led truth-telling.  

Following the failure of the 2022 Voice Referendum, and the overt racism it unleashed against the First Nations community, we believe that the majority of Australians lack understanding ...

FIRST NATIONS LED TRUTH TELLING COMMISSION  

To the Honourable President and members of the Senate in Parliament assembled: 

The petition of the undersigned shows: 

First Nations people across the country have generationally experienced the historical failures of national and state led draconian policies. These failures have caused the injustices and disadvantages faced by First Nations’ peoples to increase significantly and rapidly, and which can only be met through genuine First Nations-led truth-telling.  

Following the failure of the 2022 Voice Referendum, and the overt racism it unleashed against the First Nations community, we believe that the majority of Australians lack understanding of the historical truths that are involved with regards to the establishment of the nation of Australia. Despite the ongoing failure of government initiatives to Close the Gap (Lavarch et al. 2025), there has been no meaningful national commitment to addressing the many and increasing forms of First Nations disadvantage. However, through genuine truth-telling as a nationally- led, meaningful and valuable step towards proper reconciliation and a truth-telling Commissioner’s enquiry, all Australians can gain truthful understanding of their national pride and being.  

The events we witnessed on August 31, 2025 during the March for Australia rallies and the violent attack on Camp Sovereignty, and then the act of terrorism aimed at First Nations people on January 26, 2026 in Boorloo, Perth, reveal the deep, overt racism, reminding us just how urgently our nation needs First Nations-led historical truth-telling. 

Although some states have begun their own truth-telling processes, recent developments highlight the urgent need for a national enquiry. In particular, the Queensland Government’s sudden repeal of the Path to Treaty Act 2023 and its termination of the Queensland Truth Telling and Healing Inquiry as its first parliamentary act have caused further harm to the wellbeing of First Nations peoples, by dismantling key mechanisms intended to support truth-telling and healing.  

We support the ‘Walk for Truth’ from Naarm to Canberra and its call on the Federal Government to commit to a national truth-telling process in genuine partnership with First Nations Peoples. This commitment is necessary and urgent as it is required to inform and realise the Justice reinvestment reform and restoration needed to address all forms of First Nations’ disadvantage.  

Your petitioners ask that the Senate: 

Give legislative priority to the establishment of a national, independent First Nations-led truth-telling and healing commission of inquiry to expand understandings around historical truths and the impacts, intergenerational harm and continued suffering they have caused to First Nations people, and to share those understandings with the greater Australian community to inform and realise the justice reinvestment reform and restoration needed to address all forms of First Nations’ disadvantage. 

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First Nations led Truth Telling Commission

Give legislative priority to the establishment of a national, independent First Nations-led truth-telling and healing commission of inquiry.

FIRST NATIONS LED TRUTH TELLING COMMISSION  

To the Honourable President and members of the Senate in Parliament assembled: 

The petition of the undersigned shows: 

First Nations people across the country have generationally experienced the historical failures of national and state led draconian policies. These failures have caused the injustices and disadvantages faced by First Nations’ peoples to increase significantly and rapidly, and which can only be met through genuine First Nations-led truth-telling.  

Following the failure of the 2022 Voice Referendum, and the overt racism it unleashed against the First Nations community, we believe that the majority of Australians lack understanding of the historical truths that are involved with regards to the establishment of the nation of Australia. Despite the ongoing failure of government initiatives to Close the Gap (Lavarch et al. 2025), there has been no meaningful national commitment to addressing the many and increasing forms of First Nations disadvantage. However, through genuine truth-telling as a nationally- led, meaningful and valuable step towards proper reconciliation and a truth-telling Commissioner’s enquiry, all Australians can gain truthful understanding of their national pride and being.  

The events we witnessed on August 31, 2025 during the March for Australia rallies and the violent attack on Camp Sovereignty, and then the act of terrorism aimed at First Nations people on January 26, 2026 in Boorloo, Perth, reveal the deep, overt racism, reminding us just how urgently our nation needs First Nations-led historical truth-telling. 

Although some states have begun their own truth-telling processes, recent developments highlight the urgent need for a national enquiry. In particular, the Queensland Government’s sudden repeal of the Path to Treaty Act 2023 and its termination of the Queensland Truth Telling and Healing Inquiry as its first parliamentary act have caused further harm to the wellbeing of First Nations peoples, by dismantling key mechanisms intended to support truth-telling and healing.  

We support the ‘Walk for Truth’ from Naarm to Canberra and its call on the Federal Government to commit to a national truth-telling process in genuine partnership with First Nations Peoples. This commitment is necessary and urgent as it is required to inform and realise the Justice reinvestment reform and restoration needed to address all forms of First Nations’ disadvantage.  

Your petitioners ask that the Senate: 

Give legislative priority to the establishment of a national, independent First Nations-led truth-telling and healing commission of inquiry to expand understandings around historical truths and the impacts, intergenerational harm and continued suffering they have caused to First Nations people, and to share those understandings with the greater Australian community to inform and realise the justice reinvestment reform and restoration needed to address all forms of First Nations’ disadvantage. 

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