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A test of political courage: Yoorrook’s final reports demand action, not amnesia

Australia’s colonial era may be formally over but its legacies of inequality, land dispossession and systemic racism continue to shape daily life for First Peoples.

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Victorian Government To Make Its First Peoples’ Assembly Permanent Under New Bill

The government of Victoria is set to introduce a bill later this year that will make the First Peoples' Assembly a permanent body.

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Yoorrook inquiry's call for redress not off the table

None of the mountain of recommendations made by a landmark truth-telling inquiry are off the table, a state government says.

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Truth-telling inquiry splits on final report findings

Three of the five leaders of an Indigenous truth-telling inquiry did not endorse the key findings in one of its two final reports.

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Accused criminals left to own devices in 'bail fail'

A state will stop using private firms to track accused criminals on bail after dozens were left unmonitored when a provider suddenly collapsed.

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Victoria’s First Peoples’ Assembly wants powers over schools’ Indigenous history curriculum

Co-chair says treaty will not outline specific changes to syllabus but is ‘more about saying this is the role that First Peoples will play’

The Guardian - AU

Jacinta Allan warns against ‘American-style division’ as Indigenous treaty negotiations begin in Victoria

Premier says ‘misinformation’ and ‘fake news’ should not interfere with efforts to improve society, after opposition MP suggests talks being held in ‘secret’

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Alfred Deakin’s great-grandson apologises for second Australian PM’s role in removal of Aboriginal children

Yoorrook Justice Commission hears from descendants of colonists about their horror regarding families’ impact on Indigenous Victorians

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Australia must confront bloody colonial past

Australians have a duty to investigate the nation's colonial history in order to move forward, a landowner on the site of the Warrigal Creek massacre says.

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Age of criminality broken promise raises treaty fears

Indigenous leaders are raging at the Victorian government for breaking its promise to raise the age of criminality to 14 ahead of treaty talks.

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Push to rename La Trobe University due to namesake’s links to ‘genocidal violence’

Submission to Victoria’s Indigenous truth-telling inquiry calls for university to cut ties over first governor’s role in colonisation

The Guardian - AU

Minister grilled over Indigenous women's deaths

Victoria's family violence minister has had a heated exchange with a commissioner at the Yoorrook Justice Commission over inaction on Indigenous women's deaths.

AAP

Aboriginal victims of family violence wrongly arrested

A "huge influx" of Aboriginal women accused of violence have approached the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, who say police are arresting innocent mothers.

AAP

Child protection department preparing for ‘likely transfer’ of powers to Indigenous Victorians under treaty

Department expects ‘extensive’ changes to result from state government’s negotiations with First Peoples’ Assembly later this year, documents say

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Treaty negotiations shouldn't delay other promises

A treaty won't "magically" solve issues facing the Aboriginal community and shouldn't be cited as a reason to delay initiatives, a commission has been told.

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Victoria Police to apologise for Stolen Generation role

The chief of Victoria Police will apologise for the force's role in the Stolen Generations as part of reforms related to the Yoorrook Justice Commission.

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Traditional owners to get Vic renewable project profits

Indigenous Victorians are set to receive profits from renewable energy projects on their traditional land, according to a senior government minister.

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'Children being taken' while reforms delayed: Yoorrook

Victoria's First Peoples minister has defended her government after being criticised for inaction on key recommendations from a truth-telling inquiry.

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State 'fails' to grasp Aboriginal self-determination

State leaders and bureaucrats still don't have a good grasp on the concept of Aboriginal self-determination, a former Victorian department official says.

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Official offers 'deep regret' over land dispossession

A land surveying boss has offered an apology at the Yoorrook Justice Commission for causing trauma and dispossessing Indigenous people of land.

The Guardian - AU

Descendant of Victorian colonial family calls for removal of monuments to her ancestors

Suzannah Henty says the spray-painting of monuments shows they continue to have a damaging impact on Indigenous people

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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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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.

The Guardian - AU

Strip-searching of First Nations children by Victoria police ‘state-sanctioned violence’, inquiry hears

Indigenous children routinely subjected to racist slurs and excessive force, including use of stun guns, Yoorrook Justice Commission told

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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

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