The final report of the Yoorrook Justice Commission established in May 2021 by the State Government and the First Peoples Assembly of Victoria. Yoorrook was given a unique and important mandate: it was tasked with creating an official public record based on First Peoples’ experiences of systemic injustice since the start of colonisation. This has...

The third and final interim report of the Yoorrook Justice Commission considers systemic injustices in land, health, education, housing, economic and political life and access to records. The report makes 100 recommendations which Yoorrook expects the Victorian Government will immediately commence work to implement.

The Yoorrook Justice Commission’s second interim report considers systemic injustices in the Victorian child protection and criminal justice systems, and is grounded in the voices of First Nations Elders.

This submission offers a whole-of-government response to the Yoorrook Justice Commission’s two issues papers on systemic injustice experienced by First Peoples in the Victorian criminal justice and child protection systems.

This interim report, the first from an Australian truth-telling Commission, details Aboriginal elders’ experiences of ongoing pain and harm to Victorian First Peoples at the individual, family, community and state level.