Submissions Library

This submission was prepared by the Anglican Dioceses of Melbourne, Bendigo Wangaratta and Gippsland in response to a RFI made by the Yoorrook Justice Commission ahead of representatives from the Anglican Church appearing at a Yoorrook hearing.

Franklin Jockel is a non-Indigenous Australian who objects to separate laws for separate peoples.

This submission highlights the challenges faced by Aboriginal peoples in accessing, purchasing and fixing housing.

Uncle Dennis Fisher is a proud Waka Waka man who moved to Victoria 30 years ago.

This submission details Dennis’ work at the Melbourne Botanic Gardens and 3KND, his poetry, childhood and early life, and role in the Aged Pension test case.

This submission discusses the importance of country.

This submission outlines a long experience of racism and poor treatment of a First Nations man in the hospital system.

Julie Saylor Briggs is a Torres Strait and Yorta Yorta woman.

This submission discusses the importance of Country.

This submission questions why Kureinji Nation people are not even recognised in Victoria as part of the collective Nations and discusses the need for truth telling about cross boarder issues.

This submission contains truth telling records relevant to the Bunurong including evidence of Aboriginal people themselves as recorded by colonisers.

The Victorian Aboriginal Child and Community Agency (VACCA) is the peak Voice for Aboriginal children in Victoria.

This submission looks at: historic and current barriers to economic prosperity; consequences of systemic injustices; ending systemic economic injustice; and building strengths-based economic participation and growing the Aboriginal economy.