On a cold May Naarm morning, Travis Lovett is walking to work under a blue sky like thousands of others, beanie and gloves on, as Victoria's fickle weather drops to freezing.

Walking down the path between St George's Road, across from the Aboriginal Advancement League, cyclists and runners pass the tall, strongly-spoken Kerrupmara Gunditjmara man.

Some say hello and pass on congratulations or well wishes.

For Mr Lovett, one of the five commissioners for Yoorrook Justice Commission - the country's first truth-telling body - this is more than just another day's walk to work.

He is training.

Beginning this weekend, he will walk over 400km from Gunditjmara Country in Portland, to the Victorian Parliament on Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung Country, in order to draw attention to Yoorrook's final report, which includes an Official Public Record, and its call for Victorians to acknowledge the past and walk towards a shared and equitable future.

"History is always being told by the oppressor, as we know right across the world," Mr Lovett notes.

"This is our people's chance to set the record straight."

The final report is expected to encompass more than 100 recommendations covering all facets of government intervention in First Peoples' lives since colonisation.

Greeting National Indigenous Times with Ngatanwarr (welcome), Mr Lovett says the last four years have seen the commissioners hear stories of both the "ongoing impacts of colonisation in the state," but also the "strength, resistance and the contributions of our people".

"There's been a lot of injustices here in the state of Victoria," he notes.

"This is the importance of us documenting this truth [and] providing recommendations back to the state."

More than two years of hearings saw 16 apologies from Ministers and Department heads, and evidence of billion of dollars earned by the government from the land and water which has not been passed down to First Peoples.

"We heard from people in prison and Premiers; from descendants of those who took the land; descendants of those whose land was taken; from those who wrote the laws and those broken by those very rules," Yoorrook's chair, Professor Eleanor Bourke AM, said last week.

The 25-day walk, which will snake up the coast of Victoria, begins in Portland, on the state's south coast, and is not a coincidence. It is the site of the Henty family's arrival in Victoria—one of the early colonisers of Gunditjmara Country.

Present at three colonial frontiers: Noongar in 1829; Palawa in 1831; and Gunditjmara in 1834, the family subsequently organised the "ethnic cleansing of First Nations peoples," according to Suzannah Henty, a sixth-generation descendant of the colonists.

"Without permission from British authorities, the family illegally squatted on the Gunditjmara homelands, where they stole and damaged tens of thousands of acres of land and waterways," Ms Henty said of her ancestors last year.

"For both the British and First Nations peoples, this settlement was a crime."

For Mr Lovett, whose people come from the region, the Henty's arrival "changed our people's lives forever".

The walk visits the Convincing Grounds - home of the state's first documented massacre. Speaking last year about the massacre, Mr Lovett said the European whalers "used their guns to fend off the Kilcarer Gundidj people from accessing their own resources".

"Despite brave resistance during the Eumeralla Wars, the Gunditjmara population was decimated in what was a highly unequal contes," he said.

Over the next 25-days, the trek, which has already seen thousands of people sign up, streaks up the coast, with several community events planned along the way, before arriving at Victoria's Parliament on June 18.

It is a place that, since 1856, "has made decisions that have affected, controlled, and segregated" First Nations peoples' lives in Victoria, Mr Lovett says.

"But it's also the place where we can transform our future."

As the idea of truth-telling continues to be mired in culture war arguments and politically-motivated attacks, Mr Lovett says the idea has never been more important.

"Where we understand the truth of our state's past, we can all walk towards a better shared future together," he says.

"A lot of people in the state of Victoria don't understand about the true history of what's really happened since the colonisation process started here."

In issuing a call for everyone to join the walk, Mr Lovett is clear.

"Come listen and learn, and engage in our truth-telling process," he says.

"Because, when we understand the past and how it impacts on the present, we can all walk forward together."

The 25-day journey begins on Sunday, May 25, at Portland Foreshore Park, and finishes on June 18 on the steps of Parliament House. People of all ages are encouraged to sign up and participate in a leg of the walk.

More information, including dates, walk times, and community events, can be found online.