Victoria’s truth-telling commission requests extension to avoid replicating ‘colonial injustices’

The chair of the Yoorrook commission, Prof Eleanor Bourke, said First Nations elders deserved to ‘see change in their lifetime’. Photograph: Diego Fedele/AAP

Victoria’s Indigenous truth-telling commission has formally requested a two-year extension for its inquiry to ensure the process does not “replicate colonial injustices” and “trauma”.

The commission has been beset by a series of resignations over the past six months, including commissioner Wayne Atkinson last month.