Newsletters
Newsletter Issue 22
A powerful year for Truth and Treaty, Have a Deadly Christmas, Stay safe n strong these holidays, and more.
Read all about Yoorrook’s work for truth, understanding and transformation.
Newsletter Issue 21
A message from Yoorrook Chair Professor Eleanor Bourke AM on the closing of submissions, listening to Shared Truths, welcoming Treaty negotiations and more.
Newsletter Issue 20
Calling all Victorians to make a submission, Truth-telling Days on Country, voices from community and more.
Newsletter Issue 19
Descendants Day witnesses shed light on the past, truth-telling at museums and galleries, Truth-Telling Days, how you can make a submission and more.
Newsletter Issue 18
Our upcoming Descendants Day hearing, speaking out against the Victorian Government backflip on raising the age, community sharing their stories in a fireside yarn, and more
Newsletter Issue 16
Social justice hearings start 27 May | Land, sky & waters overview | Victoria Police commit to change
Newsletter Issue 15
Hearings start 25 March | New issues paper | Remembering the 1965 Freedom Ride
Newsletter Issue 14
Yoorrook announces new Commissioner | Health, housing and education submissions | Reckoning with the past
Newsletter Issue 13
New Focus on Education, Health, Housing | Hearing Truth from Young People| Protections for Truth Tellers
Newsletter Issue 12
One year to go for submissions | Land, sky and waters roundtables | Roadmap to transform child protection and criminal justice
Newsletter Issue 11
Land, Sky and Waters | Support Available| Education, Health and Housing
Newsletter Issue 10
Yoorrook For Justice Report: Report into Victoria’s Child Protection and Criminal Justice Systems
Newsletter Issue 9
Find out more about upcoming community information sessions and the Yoorrook for Justice Report.
Newsletter Issue 8
Find out more about making a submission, a new way to learn about Yoorrook and a recap of NAIDOC 2023 celebrations.
Newsletter Issue 7
All Victorians are now invited to be part of truth telling by making a submission to Yoorrook. Submissions had previously been open to First Peoples only.
Newsletter Issue 6
Yoorrook recently completed a month of public hearings during which Commissioners questioned government ministers and senior bureaucrats about injustices against First Peoples in the criminal justice and child protection systems.