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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.