“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
“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.”
