In its most significant proposal yet, Victoria’s Indigenous truth-telling commission takes aim at the child protection and criminal justice systems it says are failing First Peoples.
Victoria's Indigenous truth-telling commission has proposed 46 recommendations to change the state's child protection and criminal justice systemsThe government will have to consider urgent requests for an independent body for police complaints, raising the age of criminal responsibility and more
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. The recommendations range from long-term transformative change — like establishing a dedicated child protection system for First Peoples children, controlled by First People — to urgent asks including raising the age of criminal responsibility to 14.
Among Yoorrook's recommendations is a call for a new police oversight body — to be led by someone who is not a police officer — with the power to arrest and search Victoria Police officers and investigate police complaints and deaths in custody. It asks that a commitment to understanding and ending racism within the police force be made a mandatory criteria informing the selection and annual review of the police chief commissioner.It wants criminal offences of poverty, including offending linked with homelessness, disability and mental ill-health to be decriminalised, where appropriate.
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