“This premier, is a double dispossession” Yoorrook Deputy Chair Travis Lovett states in his opening remarks to Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan at yesterday’s Land, Sky and Water Hearings.
Yoorrook Chair, Professor Eleanor Bourke AM opening statement
“We cannot secure justice for First Peoples without transforming the laws and policies which by design, continue to disadvantage us.”
Jim Berg poem submission to Yoorrook Justice Commission
A powerful rallying cry for truth in this poem by Jim Berg, made as part of his submission to the Yoorrook Justice Commission
“Justice will only come about if land rights becomes a reality”
“No government in Australian whether they be commonwealth or state or local have done anything in any real sense of the word to alleviate the conditions facing aboriginal peoples in this country” – Uncle Gary Murray
Premier Allan tells of distress at massacres of First Peoples
“It brings me a sense of shame and distress that [massacres were committed] by people in the pursuit of taking land off First Peoples.”
One of the most significant land rights cases in Victoria’s history
‘We went and camped there and got death threats and everything…my two children were with me…we lived out there.’
Lily D’Ambrosio MP, Minister for Climate Action, Energy & Resources
Watch Lily D’Ambrosio MP, Minister for Climate Action, Energy & Resources, speak with emotion about the power of truth telling and the work that still needs to be done.
The Hon. Lily D’Ambrosio MP
Counsel Assisting asked Minister for Climate Action, Energy & Resources, the Hon. Lily D’Ambrosio MP if the amount of money made from mineral resources extracted in Victoria over generations “compel governments to secure the economic prosperity of First Nations people?” Minister D’Ambrosio answered “yes”.
The Hon. Natalie Hutchins MP on the importance and benefits of self-determination.
“Where we have handed power and resources to First Nations organisations we have seen some of the most extraordinary outcomes in Closing the Gap targets.”