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Any move by a future government to end Queensland’s in-process First Nations truth-telling inquiry and treaty groundwork would have a significant impact on the community, the inquiry’s head says.

“We don’t know if we’d ever get that opportunity again,” Truth-telling and Healing Inquiry chair Joshua Creamer told journalists after the independent inquiry’s ceremonial opening in Brisbane.

Joshua Creamer speaks to journalists on Monday, almost exactly 200 years since the start of the first European settlement in today’s Queensland.Credit: Matt Dennien

“It might be the only occasion we get to bring that history to the surface so that everyone can learn, explore and celebrate.”

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