Newsletters

A message from Yoorrook Chair Professor Eleanor Bourke AM on the closing of submissions, listening to Shared Truths, welcoming Treaty negotiations and more.

Calling all Victorians to make a submission, Truth-telling Days on Country, voices from community and more.

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.

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

November 22 deadline set for submissions to Yoorrook

Social justice hearings start 27 May | Land, sky & waters overview | Victoria Police commit to change

Hearings start 25 March | New issues paper | Remembering the 1965 Freedom Ride

Yoorrook announces new Commissioner | Health, housing and education submissions | Reckoning with the past

New Focus on Education, Health, Housing | Hearing Truth from Young People| Protections for Truth Tellers

One year to go for submissions | Land, sky and waters roundtables | Roadmap to transform child protection and criminal justice

Land, Sky and Waters | Support Available| Education, Health and Housing

Yoorrook For Justice Report: Report into Victoria’s Child Protection and Criminal Justice Systems

Find out more about upcoming community information sessions and the Yoorrook for Justice Report.

Find out more about making a submission, a new way to learn about Yoorrook and a recap of NAIDOC 2023 celebrations.

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.

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.

The Yoorrook Justice Commission will now run until June 2025 after being granted a 12-month extension by the Victorian Government.

Kerrupmara Gunditjmara Traditional Owner Travis Lovett has been appointed as a Commissioner of the Yoorrook Justice Commission.

Yoorrook will commence its next round of public hearings on 5 December 2022, focused on injustice experienced by First Peoples in Victoria’s criminal justice and child protection systems.

Since our April issue, Yoorrook has conducted Elders’ yarns across the State, held four weeks of hearings and published our first interim report.

Welcome to the first Yoorrook Justice Commission newsletter. Yoorrook will be producing this newsletter quarterly to keep you up to date with what is happening in the first truth-telling process into past and ongoing injustices experienced by First Peoples in Victoria.