‘Dying for their story to be heard’: Queensland’s truth-telling inquiry begins amid questions over its future
by Andrew Messenger from World news | The Guardian on (#6QRN6)
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Queensland's historic Indigenous truth-telling and healing inquiry has commenced in Brisbane, nearly two centuries to the day after a penal colony was established in Queensland.
Counsel assisting Angus Scott said the first settlers landed at what was now known as Redcliffe on 12 September 1824. In 1825, they resettled in Meanjin - later named Brisbane, a few hundred metres from where the inquiry is being held.
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