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From horror to healing: a truth-telling journey on a Bass Strait island

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On Flinders Island in Bass Strait sits a little-known place, significant to not only Tasmanian and the nation's history, but global history. It's known as Wybalenna and it's a place of deep sorrow for the Aboriginal community. More recently, the community has been working to make it a more comfortable place to spend time and continue the truth-telling that's been happening since colonisation. This year marking NAIDOC week at the site with a flag raising in what's believed to be a first. A warning to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers that the following story contains images of people who have died.
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