The Latest Breaking News from Yoorrook

Victorian premier confronts ‘bloody stains of colonisation’ at historic Indigenous truth-telling inquiry

Jacinta Allan’s journey to deepen her understanding of injustices is one many Victorians will need to embark on for Yoorrook to succeed

The Guardian - AU · Apr 29, 2024

Victorian premier to front truth-telling inquiry

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan will give evidence at the Yoorrook Justice Commission, in her first appearance before the state's truth-telling inquiry.

AAP · Apr 28, 2024

Truth-telling ‘critical’ to treaty, Victorian premier says before historic appearance at Indigenous-led inquiry

Jacinta Allan says failure of voice referendum hardened her resolve to ‘present the facts’ about impacts of colonisation

The Guardian - AU · Apr 28, 2024

‘Great shame’: Daniel Andrews highlights injustice over Indigenous children in care and justice system

Overrepresentation of First Peoples ‘is a source of great shame’ for the Victorian government, premier tells Yoorrook chair

The Guardian - AU · Apr 28, 2023

Systemic racism persists in Victorian child protection system, Yoorrook Justice Commission hears

Department representative acknowledges bias and racism amid ‘shamefully high rates’ of removal of Indigenous children

The Guardian - AU · Apr 27, 2023

Vic government sorry for 'truth-telling' delays

Yoorrook Justice Commission says the Andrews government failed to provide evidence it requested for its truth-telling inquiry.

AAP · Mar 27, 2023

Yoorrook Justice Commission hears Victorian bail laws are criminalising Aboriginal people, especially women

Victorians are being refused bail for offences so minor they might never have warranted a sentence of imprisonment, with a disproportionate number of Indigenous offenders ending up on remand, a truth-telling inquiry has heard.

ABC News · Dec 16, 2022

Victoria vows to overhaul child protection as Yoorrook Justice Commission begins public hearings

Daniel Andrews says too many First Nations children taken from families and plans to work with minister to ‘devise a new system’

The Guardian - AU · Dec 5, 2022

Yoorrook focus shifts to child protection

Witnesses are giving evidence to an inquiry into the experiences of Aboriginal Victorians in the state's criminal justice and child protection systems.

AAP · Dec 5, 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