White Noise - Episode 2: Reimagining Royal Commissions
Show Notes - Episode Two– Reimagining Royal Commissions: giving up power with Yoorrook Commissioner Sue-Anne Hunter
For this White Noise episode, we speak with Sue-Anne Hunter, Wurundjeri and Ngurai Illum Wurrung woman and Deputy Chair of the Yoorrook Justice Commission.
This conversation was recorded and produced on Wurundjeri Country, in Naarm at the Melbourne Law School. We pay our respects to the custodians of Naarm, who have never ceded their sovereignty or their rights.
We spoke about the work of the Commission, as Australia’s first formal truth-telling body to address the wrongs experienced by First Peoples in Victoria throughout colonisation. Sue-Anne speaks about how she brings her background as a therapist into her work in the legal environment of a Commission to seek to keep people safe while they share their truth, and what her hopes are for this important process.
The Yoorrook Justice Commission is currently calling for submissions from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. You can make a submission to the Yoorrook commission via the Yoorrook website.
Transcript
A full transcript of this episode is available here
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More information on the episode
You can learn more about Yoorrrook’s work at:
- Yoorrook Wurrek Tyerrang (Hearings)
- Yoorrook Justice Commission, Interim Report (June 2022)
- Yoorrook Justice Commission, Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Data Governance (Information Sheet 4, 2022)
- Yoorrook Justice Commission, Strategic Priorities (2021)
You can learn more about First Nations healing at:
Production details
The White Noise podcast is a production of the Indigenous Law and Justice Hub at the University of Melbourne. You can find out more about us on our website, or by following us on Instagram.
The White Noise podcast is hosted by Jaynaya Dwyer, Research Fellow at the Indigenous Law and Justice Hub.
Vocalist John Wayne Parsons is a proud Yuggerabul and Ugarem le singer-songwriter, and composer of the jingle “White Noise”, lyrics inspired by family group - Mirror Child. With Guitarist - Cisco Kid in the production of the “White Noise” soundtrack produced by sound technician/ mixer - Patrick Telfer in the Recording Studios, at the Victorian College of the Arts, the University of Melbourne.
Our thanks to the staff of the MLS digital studio for the production of this podcast:
- Greta Robenstone – production
- Ben Chandler – Sound Mixing