Veronica Nelson’s death led to bail reform. A year on, the Victorian Government wants to backtrack

Less than one year after new bail laws came into effect in Victoria, the Premier has outlined they will be changed.

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.