‘Bloody stains of colonisation’: Victorian premier speaks at truth-telling hearing

Speaking at the Yoorrook Justice Commission, Victorian premier Jacinta Allan says she has had limited formal education on Aboriginal history, and that this was part of a 'deliberate and systematic' effort to 'blot away the bloody stains of colonisation'.
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The hearing was part of an Indigenous truth-telling process designed to put the state's colonial history on record. 'I want to acknowledge there is an unbroken line between the dispossession and violence of the past and the lives of First Peoples,' Allan says
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