First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria

Magistrate Rose Falla works to ensure the system never again ignores Indigenous custodians’ role and responsibilities for the land.

For many First Nations people, January 26 is a day for listening to hard truths that go far beyond the Australia Day debate.

Victoria has become the first Australian jurisdiction to institute a formal truth-telling forum, with the establishment of the independent Yoo-rrook Justice Commission.

Aboriginal affairs minister Gabrielle Williams and assembly co-chairs Geraldine Atkinson and Marcus Stewart will meet virtually to begin the negotiations, which they have said would mark a ‘historic moment’ on Victoria’s path to Treaty.