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Official offers 'deep regret' over land dispossession

A land surveying boss has offered an apology at the Yoorrook Justice Commission for causing trauma and dispossessing Indigenous people of land.

AAP · Apr 15, 2024

Dutton declines to state position on voice referendum despite pressure on Liberals to decide stance

Opposition says it won’t be rushed into stating a position until closer to vote on bill to be introduced in June

The Guardian - AU · Mar 23, 2023

Indigenous cultural fishing report finds NSW government 'failed to effect the will of parliament'

A damning report has found the 13-year-delay in commencing Indigenous cultural fishing legislation reveals the need for cultural change within NSW government.

ABC News · Nov 7, 2022

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Growing prison populations in Australia are costing $4.2bn a year despite falling crime rates, Labor says

‘If the incarceration rate had remained at its 1985 level, Australia would have saved $2.6bn,’ says assistant treasury minister Andrew Leigh

The Guardian - AU · Oct 30, 2022

Failure to decriminalise Indigenous cultural fishing in NSW contradicts Closing the Gap targets, inquiry hears

The failure to implement cultural fishing legislation in NSW has worsened the health and wellbeing of Indigenous people on the South Coast, a state parliamentary inquiry has heard.

ABC News · Aug 19, 2022

NT treaties must achieve ‘highest levels of self-determination’ for First Nations, commissioner says

Acting treaty commissioner Tony McAvoy recommends forum for Indigenous people to endorse a state-wide treaty model

The Guardian - AU · Jun 29, 2022

Yoorrook truth-telling commission begins to examine 'brutal ugliness' of Australia's treatment of Aboriginal people

For the first time in Australia's history, a truth-telling commission has begun investigating the nation's brutal history since colonisation, to lay bare systematic abuses against Aboriginal people.

ABC News · Mar 24, 2022

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Vic truth-telling hearings set to begin

Victoria's Yoorook Justice Commission will begin public hearings by March or April, as its deputy chair bats away reports of infighting.

AAP · Feb 14, 2022

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