Upcoming community information sessions

Yoorrook is holding information and engagement sessions across Victoria.

Come and yarn with Truth Receivers to find out more about truth telling through Yoorrrook and how you can get involved.

^{Yoorrook Truth Receiver Stephen Thorpe with Community members at the Mullum Mullum Indigenous Gathering Place information session}

Upcoming sessions include:

^{Yoorrook Truth Receiver Aunty Colleen Harney with Community members at the Ramahyuck District Aboriginal Corp information session} 

Follow Yoorrook’s social media channels or check out the events page on Yoorrook’s website for information about sessions as they’re added. 

Make a truth telling submission 

Yoorrook invites all Victorians to tell the truth about injustice against First Peoples by making a submission to the Commission.  For example, truths about:  

• your local area 
• your family's experiences
• forced removal from home and land
• cultural loss
• acts of resistance 

Yoorrook will use the truths and experiences shared with the Commission to make recommendations for reform and create a new public record of the impacts of colonisation on First Peoples. 

Submissions can be made in a variety of ways (written, recorded, photographed and more) via the Yoorrook website.

First Peoples wanting to make a submission can receive assistance from a Yoorrook Truth Receiver. To work with a Truth Receiver, please email enquires@yoorrook.org.au or call 1800 YOO RRK.  Free legal and wellbeing support is also available for First Peoples who want to make a submission. Find out more about the support Yoorrook offers.

^{Watch a video about making a submission}

Commissioner Engagements

Yoorrook Chair Professor Eleanor Bourke recently gave a speech at a Department of Transport event to celebrate NAIDOC Week, where she told staff:

"Victoria, like the rest of Australia, is at a critical juncture in terms of the relationship between First Peoples and the State. No longer can it maintain the status quo that sees First Peoples continue to face overwhelming injustice and disadvantage. 

"We have come too far. Change is already underway – the creation of Yoorrook was part of this. But more must follow. I am hopeful Victoria is moving in the right direction."

Deputy Chair Adjunct Professor Sue-Anne Hunter recently took part in a panel discussion titled ‘Voice, Treaty, Truth’ at the NSW Local Court Annual Conference, and also gave a keynote address at the First Nations Women’s Leadership Symposium.  

^{Deputy Chair Adjunct Professor Sue-Anne Hunter speaks at the Women's Leadership Symposium}

Keep up to date

Follow Yoorrook on social media for all the latest on our work.  You can also watch past hearings, read up on truth telling news and stories and learn more about Australia’s first formal truth telling inquiry on the Yoorrook website. 

We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and pay our respect to them, their culture and their Elders past and present.