Watch Rueben Berg, Co-chair of First Peoples Assembly Victoria explain the difficulty of confronting the compounding injustices First Peoples’ face and their resilience.
“We have been removed from being able to play on this monopoly board and other people have come and taken it over”
Watch Rueben Berg, Co-Chair of First Peoples’ Assembly illustrate the challenges First Peoples face in creating inter-generational wealth at yesterday’s Yoorrook Social Justice Hearings.
Professor Ray Lovett shares powerful truth
From birth, to childhood to parenting, watch Professor Ray Lovett share the powerful truth about the impact racism and structural failings have had on generations of First Peoples.
Jill Gallagher on the historical exclusion from healthcare
“For generations, Aboriginal individuals were subject to a system of healthcare marked by colonial control.”
“This premier, is a double dispossession”
“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