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Victorian government response to the Yoorrook for justice report
The Commission’s second interim report, Yoorrook for justice, was delivered to the Governor of Victoria and the First Peoples’ Assembly on 31 August 2023. The report was the culmination of the Commission’s extensive inquiries into systemic injustice experienced by First Peoples in the child protection and criminal justice systems. The report details extensive systemic injustice, racism, discriminatory laws and policy failures that have caused, and continue to cause, harm to First Peoples.
The report emphasises that present injustice has deep roots in the colonial foundations of the State and makes 46 recommendations for change. In considering the report’s recommendations, the Victorian government:
- supports four recommendations in full, and supports in principle 24 recommendations to reform the child protection and criminal justice systems
- will further consider 15 recommendations (categorised as ‘under consideration’)
- does not support three recommendations.
