Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has appeared at the Yoorrook Justice Commission, becoming the first leader of an Australian government to give evidence at a formal truth-telling inquiry.
Vic torian Premier Jacinta Allan has become the first leader of an Australian government to give evidence at an Indigenous-led truth-telling inquiry.
She gave several hours of evidence related to the theft of land from Aboriginal nations across Victoria and agreed the sovereignty of those clans was never ceded. "And that distress carries with me today. It brings me a sense of shame and distress personally that I did not know that, and it brings me a sense of shame and distress that this was done by people, all in the pursuit of taking land off First Peoples."Why the British came to see the rapid and deadly settlement of Victoria as 'a disaster they couldn't control'
But she was repeatedly questioned by the commission over whether the government was doing all that it could to redress the human rights abuses perpetrated against Aboriginal Victorians.Mr McAvoy suggested the dispossession and massacres of their ancestors had meant Aboriginal people may "never get the best of their land back".
"Yes, yes I would," Ms Allan said, adding that she intended for the state's treaty process to help insulate Aboriginal people from cynical political games.
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