TESTIMONY: A DIALOGIC APPROACH ...

TESTIMONY: A DIALOGIC APPROACH

In fresh decades, personal testimony has become an important discursive practice for bearing witness to traumatic historical occurrences As such, it has been featured in Holocaust commemoration, and in human rights and "truth" commissions. In Australia, which is the focus of this essay, personal testimony has played a vital part in educating Australians about the history and experiences of the Stolen Generations, and has provided a basis in succession which to make human rights claims. Brought to international attention within Phillip Noyce's 2001