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It’s called Yoorrook, the Wemba Wemba word for “truth”. This truth-telling inquiry has spent years collecting testimony from hundreds of First Nations and non-Indigenous people, revealing the scale of atrocities and the failure of governments to reckon with the past.

More than $21 million in federal funding is announced as an Australian Law Reform Commission inquiry into justice responses to sexual violence is tabled.

The laws, introduced in March last year after a long fight by advocates in the aftermath of the death of Indigenous woman Veronica Nelson in 2020, partly wound back the 2018 changes introduced in response to the Bourke Street attack and which saw the number of Aboriginal women in custody nearly double within a year.

As First Peoples of these lands with an ongoing connection to Country that goes back tens of thousands of years, it is heartbreaking to know our children are still being taken from us in large numbers” – Yoorrook Deputy Chair, Sue-Anne Hunter

Despite the fallout from the failed federal referendum last year, in Victoria 2024 has been a remarkable year, filled with powerful moments – via National Indigenous Times

First Peoples homelessness in Victoria is twice that of the national average, new data has revealed – via National Indigenous Times.

Uncle Charles Pakana from Victorian Aboriginal News catches up for an exclusive yarn with 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 John Batman met with Kulin leaders in an apparent attempt to lease – or purchase — an area of land stretching from modern-day Melbourne to Geelong – via ABC News.

Many Aboriginal communities have long held self-determination as the key to overcoming intergenerational disadvantages – via ABC News.

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

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