HISTORICAL FACTS: Yoorrook - Caught on Camera

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.

The Conversation · Jul 7, 2025

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.

Pedestrian.tv · Jul 4, 2025

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.

AAP · Jul 1, 2025

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

The Guardian - AU · Sep 4, 2024

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.

AAP · Sep 3, 2024

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.

AAP · Aug 13, 2024

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 · Jul 1, 2024

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 · Jun 20, 2024

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 · Jun 13, 2024

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

The Guardian - AU · Jun 9, 2024