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First Nations homelessness in Victoria is twice that of the national average, new data has revealed.

Following a closing of submissions and evidence for the Yoorook Justice Commission, VAN’s Charles Pakana catches up for an exclusive yarn with Deputy Commissioner Sue-Anne Hunter

Keicha Day often has to fight back a rising wave of resentment when driving down the Henty Highway in western Victoria to visit her elderly mother – via The Age.

In 1835, a group of men led by a grazier from Tasmania, John Batman, met with Kulin leaders in an apparent attempt to lease – or purchase — an extraordinary area of land stretching from modern-day Melbourne to Geelong.

Many Aboriginal communities have long held self-determination as the key to overcoming intergenerational disadvantages flowing from Australia’s colonisation.

During a cycling trip through France and Belgium, Elizabeth Balderstone took in the sight of a landscape that had witnessed “enormous tragedy”.

Yoorrook Truth Receivers talked with the VAN Talks Podcast about just some of the work that is going on behind the scenes.

Submission to Victoria’s Indigenous truth-telling inquiry calls for university to cut ties over first governor’s role in colonisation

Yoorrook Commissioner Sue-Anne Hunter gave an update on the work of the Yoorrook Justice Commission on @3CR Community Radio’s ‘Doin Time’.

‘The Yoorrook Justice Commission, Victoria’s Indigenous truth-telling inquiry, has heard evidence the high prison call costs disproportionately impact First Nations people, who are over-represented in the justice system.

The Cruse family had their house in Melbourne’s south-east raided in 2015 as part of the Operation Rising counter-terrorism investigation, which targeted teenager Eathan Cruse and two of his friends.