Watch Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan tell Yoorrook commissioners of her distress at learning details of the brutality inflicted on First Peoples during colonisation.
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Representatives from the Uniting, Anglican and Catholic churches will give evidence before the Yoorrook Justice Commission on Wednesday 1 May.
Watch the hearings live on the Yoorrook Facebook page & at yoorrookjusticecommission.org.au
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Today's hearing will start at 9:00am.
Watch the hearings live on the Yoorrook Facebook page and at yoorrookjusticecommission.org.au
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Uncle Andrew Gardiner spoke at the start of the formal #yoorrook hearing to give the Premier an insight into the history of the Wurundjeri Woiwurrung people, on whose land this hearing is being held.
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Premier Allan: 'Want what I see as the legacy of this part of the process is to be the writing of the fundamental #truth of the #history of our state that that truth to be told in classrooms across the state.'
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Yoorrook Deputy Chair Travis Lovett showed Water Minister Harriet Shing green, unhealthy water collected from Margooya Lagoon following the Commission visit there this week.
Watch the Minister's response:
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#yoorrook Chair Bourke: 'Premier, I thank you for appearing before Yoorrook today. Your words will live on the public record for generations to come. When you leave here today I ask you to live up to your words with your actions.'
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Counsel Assisting Tony McAvoy: 'The State of #Victoria has received many, many times over the benefits of that process of dispossession, has it not?'
Premier Allan: 'Yes, it has.'
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'there has been a lot of best endeavours, a lot of good intent but that good intent hasn't necessarily had the right practices of particularly self determination embedded in them.'
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Premier Allan: 'I want to acknowledge there is an unbroken line between the dispossession and violence of the past and the lives of #FirstPeoples today. I also want to acknowledge...that from the beginning until today the policies and practice of government have created the gap
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That concludes today's hearing. Thank you for following along.
#yoorrook hearings will resume on Wednesday 1 May when representatives from the Anglican, Uniting and Catholic churches will appear before the Commission.
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Premier Allan: 'There is more to do in our #education systems to make sure that this historical #truth -of the record that will come out of the #Yoorrook hearings in the future - is told through our through our education systems going forward.'
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Premier Allan: [Self-determination] is making sure it is [a] transfer and sharing of power and resources, making sure that that is embedded in the work we do.'
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