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University of Melbourne to host international truth-telling symposium
Next week the University of Melbourne will host an international truth-telling s...
Giovanni Torre 6 Nov 2025
Finalists named for 2025 NAIDOC Female Elder of the Year
Three respected community leaders have been announced as finalists for the 2025...
Dechlan Brennan 5 Jun 2025
Truth-telling body launches new campaign to share stories of First Peoples
Australia's first truth-telling body has launched a new campaign featuring the t...
Dechlan Brennan 27 May 2025
"These are stories from now": Yoorrook's final report set to demand real change
The country's first truth-telling body is expected to make more than 100 recomme...
Dechlan Brennan 13 May 2025
2024 in Victoria: Backflips and progress in equal measure
2024 in Victoria saw both stagnation and progress, as the state government's dec...
Dechlan Brennan 1 Jan 2025
Yoorrook Justice Commission throws support behind Queensland truth-telling inquiry

The fall out of the Queensland government's decision to cancel the state's truth-telling inquiry continues, with Victoria's own truth-telling body labelling the decision "devastating".

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Nov 4, 2024
Heartless, treacherous, a disgrace: Victorian government slammed by Indigenous groups for breaking promise to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14

Indigenous, human rights and legal groups have slammed the Victorian government's decision to abandon plans to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14, arguing the Labor government have caved i...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Aug 13, 2024
Victorian Department of Housing admits to "crisis", but can't say how long Aboriginal people wait for social housing

The secretary of the Victorian Housing Department has told a truth-telling inquiry in Naarm the disparity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people and their access to housing is a "crisis".

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jun 7, 2024
Victorian Police to apologise for role in Stolen Generation

Victorian police will apologise for their involvement in the Stolen Generation and implement an improved monitoring system for complaints made by Aboriginal people as part of 79 proposed reforms to ch...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan May 9, 2024
First Peoples in Victoria received none of the $83 billion in water revenue the government received over 13-years, truth-telling commission hears

A truth-telling inquiry in Victoria has heard the state received more than $83 billion in water revenue over the past decade, but none of that was passed on to Indigenous people.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Apr 26, 2024
Truth telling has never been more important than it is right now

Truth telling has never been more important than it is right now. In the past, history has been told by colonisers, including through the celebration and memorialization of early settlers and explore...

First Peoples' Assembly express disappointment at rejection of Yoorrook recommendations

The reaction to the Victorian Government's decision to implement less than 10 per cent of the recommendations made by the Yoorrook Justice Commission in full has continued, with the First Peoples' Ass...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Apr 4, 2024
Disappointment as majority of Yoorrook recommendations rejected or not implemented in full

Indigenous groups in Victoria have responded with disappointment to the announcement by the Victorian Government that only 28 of the 46 recommendations laid out by the Yoorrook Justice Commission will...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Apr 3, 2024
Anthony North announced as new Yoorrook Commissioner

The Yoorrook Justice Commission has announced their new Commissioner, with former Federal Court Judge Anthony North KC filling the vacancy left by professor Kevin Bell, who stood down from his positio...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jan 31, 2024
Yoorrook Justice Commission opens to submissions from all Victorians

Regardless of background, all Victorians can now make submissions to the Yoorrook Justice Commission, Victoria's truth-telling inquiry. It comes as the Yoorrook Justice Commission extended an invitati...

Callan Morse Callan Morse Jun 15, 2023
Yoorrook Justice Commission's quest for truth extended by 12 months

Victoria's truth telling inquiry, the Yoorrook Justice Commission, will run until June 2025 after being granted a 12-month extension by the Victorian government on Tuesday.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Apr 4, 2023
Victorian truth-telling probe calls for data sovereignty laws, requests extension

Australia's first truth-telling commission has requested a two-year extension to deliver its final report, as it moves to focus on modern injustices perpetrated against Indigenous people.

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Guest Author Jul 4, 2022
Powerful commission launched to probe First Nations injustice in Victoria

A new Indigenous-led group with the "powers of a royal commission" has been tasked with investigating injustices experienced by First Nations people in Victoria.

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Guest Author Mar 24, 2022
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