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'Misinformation, lies': Australian-first treaty warning

Students are set to learn more about post-colonial impacts on Aboriginal people after an agreement was struck on an Australian-first treaty.

AAP

Australia’s first truth-telling inquiry finds British committed genocide of Indigenous people

Yoorrook Justice Commission says British colonisation of Victoria brought violence, dispossession and lasting harm to Aboriginal communities

The Independent UK

Victoria’s Indigenous people experienced ‘genocide’, truth-telling inquiry says

Yoorrook Justice Commission splits on final report but makes 100 recommendations aimed at healing and reconciliation

The Guardian - AU

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US president lays out terms and says US won’t kill supreme leader ‘for now’; minister hopes for reversal of WA heritage listing decision

The Guardian - AU

Victorian premier confronts ‘bloody stains of colonisation’ at historic Indigenous truth-telling inquiry

Jacinta Allan’s journey to deepen her understanding of injustices is one many Victorians will need to embark on for Yoorrook to succeed

The Guardian - AU

Systemic racism persists in Victorian child protection system, Yoorrook Justice Commission hears

Department representative acknowledges bias and racism amid ‘shamefully high rates’ of removal of Indigenous children

The Guardian - AU

Victorian government apologises to Yoorrook Justice Commission amid delays to Indigenous truth-telling inquiry

Internal police reports on systemic racism and confidential ministerial briefings on bail reform are among the thousands of documents the state government is withholding from Victoria's Indigenous truth-telling inquiry.

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Vic government sorry for 'truth-telling' delays

Yoorrook Justice Commission says the Andrews government failed to provide evidence it requested for its truth-telling inquiry.

AAP

NDIS has 'failed' Aboriginal people with a disability

The Yoorrook Justice Commission, Victoria's first truth-telling inquiry, has heard how Indigenous people with a disability are not being adequately supported.

AAP

Bail law changes not good enough, legal groups say

Legal groups are cautiously optimistic about the Victorian government's plans to overhaul the state's bail laws.

AAP

Truth-telling probe brings up past police brutality

The Yoorrook Justice Commission has heard how a proud Yorta Yorta man only felt free of racism and violence when he left Australia.

AAP

Family of Stolen Generations survivor Aunty Eunice Wright give evidence at Yoorrook Justice Commission

The family of Aunty Eunice Wright, a Stolen Generations survivor who died days before Victoria's reparations program was announced, tell the Yoorrrook Justice Commission her exclusion from the scheme is an injustice.

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Yoorrook Justice Commission hears Victorian bail laws are criminalising Aboriginal people, especially women

Victorians are being refused bail for offences so minor they might never have warranted a sentence of imprisonment, with a disproportionate number of Indigenous offenders ending up on remand, a truth-telling inquiry has heard.

ABC News

Aboriginal kids targeted in police custody

Aboriginal children are routinely strip-searched and harassed while in police custody, community leaders have told a hearing in Victoria.

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Yoorrook Justice Commission hears of racism in child protection and pushes on criminal age of responsibility

Yoorrook Justice Commission hears testimonies about systemic injustice in Victoria ahead of a meeting of state and territory attorneys-general to discuss the criminal age of responsibility.

AAP

More Aboriginal children in care in Vic

More Aboriginal children are under child protection orders than ever before and a truth-telling commission has heard that unconscious bias pervades the system.

The Guardian - AU

Permanent care orders and ‘racist’ carers cut some Aboriginal children’s cultural links, inquiry told

Muriel Bamblett tells Victoria’s Yoorrook commission there is little oversight of cultural plans for Indigenous children in permanent care

AAP

Vic child protection hit with racism claim

Claims of racism, bullying and a toxic culture in Victoria's child protection system have been aired at a hearing of the Aboriginal truth-telling commission.

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The Guardian - AU

Victoria vows to overhaul child protection as Yoorrook Justice Commission begins public hearings

Daniel Andrews says too many First Nations children taken from families and plans to work with minister to ‘devise a new system’

The Guardian - AU

Victoria’s child protection system is creating ‘new stolen generation’, Aboriginal leader says

Condemnation comes as the state’s truth-telling inquiry, the Yoorrook Justice Commission, prepares to hold hearings on the subject

AAP

Victorian inquiry to probe justice system

Victoria's truth-telling inquiry is inviting Indigenous people to share their stories about injustices experienced in criminal and child protection systems.

ABC News

In sharing his story, Uncle Jack Charles opened Australia's eyes to wider truths

As Australians mourn the loss of an acting legend, those close to the 79-year-old Aboriginal actor say his legacy of love, warmth and truth-telling will endure.

The Guardian - AU

Yoorrook: the fight for Victoria’s truth-telling commission to achieve its groundbreaking goals

The historic process has already seen requests for extension, calls for delays and departures

ABC News

Yoorrook Justice Commission releases interim report detailing Aboriginal elders' experiences of racism

Aboriginal elders have recounted their experiences of discrimination, dispossession and child removal for a landmark Victorian inquiry.

AAP

Vic truth-telling inquiry member resigns

An Aboriginal elder and commissioner on Victoria's truth-telling inquiry has stepped down, the third key member to resign in six months.

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