The Point: May 24

Tonight NITV’s The Point marks the first anniversary since the Uluru Statement from the Heart of the Nation, and examines what a ‘truth-telling commission’ might look like in Australia.

Rachael Hocking and John Paul Janke will be joined on the panel by special guest, Megan Davis.

Davis is a Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales, and directs the Indigenous Law Centre. In 2010, she became the first Indigenous Australian to sit on a United Nations body and she is an expert member of the UN Human Rights Council’s Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous People (EMRIP).

This episode will also look at the impact the Turnbull Government’s rejection of the Uluru Statement has made on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Also on the program, NITV journalist Ryan Liddle examines what a truth and reconciliation commission might look like in Australia, and interviews Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, Co-Chair of the National Congress Rod Little, Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion and speaks to Professor Andrea Durbach about South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

NITV reporter Liz Deep-Jones examines if a treaty is likely in Australia by looking at how the different states are progressing with their own treaty processes. She speaks to former Head of Indigenous Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, Warren Mundine, Greens MP Lidia Thorpe, Victorian Treaty Advancement Commissioner Jill Gallagher, actor Jack Charles and elder Tauto Sansbury.

NITV presenter, Karla Grant visits the National Gallery of Australia for its new exhibition ‘The National Picture: The Art of Tasmania’s Black War’ which acknowledges the history of the frontier war between British colonists and Aboriginal Tasmanians.

Finally, Taungurung Traditional Owner and the first Aboriginal person in history to address the Victorian Cabinet, Mick Harding, will join the panel live from Melbourne to update viewers on Victoria’s Treaty process.

Thursday evenings at 8.30pm on NITV.