Submissions Library

This submission was prepared by the Anglican Dioceses of Melbourne, Bendigo Wangaratta and Gippsland in response to a RFI made by the Yoorrook Justice Commission ahead of representatives from the Anglican Church appearing at a Yoorrook hearing.

Franklin Jockel is a non-Indigenous Australian who objects to separate laws for separate peoples.

This submission highlights the challenges faced by Aboriginal peoples in accessing, purchasing and fixing housing.

This submission discusses the importance of country.

Julie Saylor Briggs is a Torres Strait and Yorta Yorta woman.

This submission discusses the importance of Country.

This submission questions why Kureinji Nation people are not even recognised in Victoria as part of the collective Nations and discusses the need for truth telling about cross boarder issues.

This submission contains truth telling records relevant to the Bunurong including evidence of Aboriginal people themselves as recorded by colonisers.

Keicha Day is a a Gunditjmara/Yorta Yorta woman.

This submission is a transcript of Keicha discussing the impact of colonisation on Country and community.

Dr Wayne Atkinson is a Yorta Yorta Elder and Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne.

This submission includes papers from Dr Atkinson’s PhD thesis tracing the origins of reserves and the policy of segregation and control. Also includes is an historic analysis of land injustice in Victoria, drawing on Dr Atkinson’s knowledge as a principle claimant in the Yorta Yorta case.