Bonus Episode 7: Walk for truth-telling
Students in Year 3 and 4 from St Patrick’s Primary School, Port Fairy, carry the Walk for Truth banner. This was Day 4 of the Walk for Truth by Travis Lovett, Gunditjmara/Kerrupmara man and Yoorrook Justice Commissioner, in Port Fairy, southwest Victoria.
Have you ever told the truth but it felt like no one listened? This special bonus episode is all about truth-telling.
Hey History! follows Travis Lovett, a proud Gunditjmara/Kerrupmara man and Commissioner at the Yoorrook Justice Commission, on a 400km 'Walk for Truth' across Victoria.
Who is Travis Lovett, and why is he going on a really, really long walk?
What is the Yoorrook Justice Commission?
What is 'truth-telling' and how can it happen with history?
Host Axel Clark and students from St Patrick’s Primary School join Travis on his Walk for Truth through Port Fairy.
Hear:
Why telling the truth is important—at school, at home, and in Australian history.
How 'history' isn’t fixed. Do we know the whole story? Is there another side to the story?
What is a 'commission'?
What difference can it make when we tell the truth about history?
How the Yoorrook Justice Commission has gathered stories and evidence over four years, and what happens next.
Voices
Olga Lyons, Principal, St Patrick's Primary School, Port Fairy Victoria
Dr Matthew Keynes, Research Fellow, Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne (and truth-telling commission expert!). Read Dr Keynes’s submission to Yoorrook.
Aunty Nellie Flagg's testimony to the Yoorrook Justice Commission (excerpt)
Uncle Henry Atkinson's story shared with the Yoorrook Justice Commission
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan’s testimony to the Yoorrook Justice Commission
Year Three and Four students of St Patrick's Primary School, Port Fairy Victoria
Rosa Ellen (voice actor for news report)
Transcript
Credits
Hosted by Axel Clark.Made on Gadigal Country by Jane Curtis.
Sound engineering by Jollyvolume.
Executive producers are Clare Wright and Anna Clark.
Production assistance from Alexandra Morris.
Thanks to all the students whose voices you hear in this episode and their schools and teachers: St Patrick's Primary School, Princes Street Primary school, Marrickville West Primary School, La Perouse Primary School, and Yirrkala Bilingual School.
Hey History! is produced by the Australian Centre for Public History at UTS and UTS Impact Studios.
Impact Studios' executive producer is Sarah Gilbert.
Thank you
This episode was made possible by Dusseldorp Forum, a family foundation committed to a just and equitable Australia, one that is caring, ethical and honours our First Peoples.
Special thanks to Principal Olga Lyons and St Patrick's Primary School Port Fairy, Rosa Ellen, Rachel Fyfe and the Yoorrook team.