Overview

• Commissioner Travis Lovett’s 486 km Walk for Truth from Portland to Parliament House ended on June 18 with thousands joining the final leg to spotlight colonial injustices.
• The Yoorrook Justice Commission will formally close on June 30 after four years as Victoria’s first formal Indigenous-led truth-telling inquiry.
• The forthcoming July report will present more than 100 recommendations, building on six interim proposals already backed by the Victorian government.
• Interim findings documented grave and ongoing human rights abuses against First Peoples and urged reforms to the state’s justice and child protection systems.
• The commission’s conclusions will feed into state treaty talks, driven by widespread community engagement and heightened by the failed national voice referendum.