Ineffaceable Memories: The Truth of Testimony

Luker, T

Ineffaceable Memories: The Truth of Testimony

Luker, T

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Publisher:: Socio-Legal Research Centre, Griffith Law School
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: The Australian Feminist Law Journal, 2008, 29 pp. 133 - 154
Issue Date:: 2008-01

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dc.contributor.author	Luker, T https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-4791	en_US
dc.date.issued	2008-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	The Australian Feminist Law Journal, 2008, 29 pp. 133 - 154	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1320-0968	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/29199
dc.description.abstract	The traditional approaches to evidence law are analysed through an investigation of claimant Lorna Cubillo's testimony in the historic Stolen Generations trial against Australia's Commonwealth government. The significance of Cubillo's testimony is the narration of an event that left an ineradicable impression on her, giving rise to her racialised status. The author argues that the true power of testimony is in its effect, its ability to destabilise dominant narratives and in the fact of the narrator's survival.	en_US
dc.publisher	Socio-Legal Research Centre, Griffith Law School	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	The Australian Feminist Law Journal	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/13200968.2008.10854410	en_US
dc.title	Ineffaceable Memories: The Truth of Testimony	en_US
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Abstract:

The traditional approaches to evidence law are analysed through an investigation of claimant Lorna Cubillo's testimony in the historic Stolen Generations trial against Australia's Commonwealth government. The significance of Cubillo's testimony is the narration of an event that left an ineradicable impression on her, giving rise to her racialised status. The author argues that the true power of testimony is in its effect, its ability to destabilise dominant narratives and in the fact of the narrator's survival.

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