Victorian Aboriginal truth-telling inquiry calls for major overhaul of justice systems
ABCIn short: Victoria's Indigenous truth-telling commission has proposed 46 recommendations to change the state's child protection and criminal justice systems Victoria's Indigenous truth-telling commission has proposed 46 recommendations to change the state's child protection and criminal justice systems What's next? The government will have to consider urgent requests for an independent body for police complaints, raising the age of criminal responsibility and more Victoria's Indigenous truth-telling inquiry is calling on the state government to create an independent watchdog to tackle police complaints, a First Nations-controlled child protection system and to stop detaining children under the age of 16. In its most significant proposal yet, the commission has put forward 46 recommendations amounting to a sweeping overhaul of Victoria's child protection and criminal justice systems. "This is the first truth-telling commission in Australia, in Victoria, for Victorian First Peoples," Wurundjeri and Ngurai Illum Wurrung woman and Yoorrook Commissioner Sue-Anne Hunter said. The recommendations follow Yoorrook's own inquiry into the criminal justice and child protection systems, hearing from more than 80 witnesses including government ministers and First Peoples with lived experience of Victorian state systems.
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