Watch Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan tell Yoorrook commissioners of her distress at learning details of the brutality inflicted on First Peoples during colonisation.

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Representatives from the Uniting, Anglican and Catholic churches will give evidence before the Yoorrook Justice Commission on Wednesday 1 May.

Watch the hearings live on the Yoorrook Facebook page & at yoorrookjusticecommission.org.au

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This morning’s hearing at Margooya Lagoon started with a welcome to country from Tati Tati Elders and dancers. Uncle Brendan Kennedy then gave evidence ahead of Water Minister Harriet Shing

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Today's hearing will start at 9:00am.

Watch the hearings live on the Yoorrook Facebook page and at yoorrookjusticecommission.org.au

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Uncle Andrew Gardiner spoke at the start of the formal #yoorrook hearing to give the Premier an insight into the history of the Wurundjeri Woiwurrung people, on whose land this hearing is being held.

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Premier Allan: 'Want what I see as the legacy of this part of the process is to be the writing of the fundamental #truth of the #history of our state that that truth to be told in classrooms across the state.'

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Yoorrook Deputy Chair Travis Lovett showed Water Minister Harriet Shing green, unhealthy water collected from Margooya Lagoon following the Commission visit there this week.

Watch the Minister's response:
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#yoorrook Chair Bourke: 'Premier, I thank you for appearing before Yoorrook today. Your words will live on the public record for generations to come. When you leave here today I ask you to live up to your words with your actions.'

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#yoorrook Chair Eleanor Bourke opened the hearing by telling the Premier: 'For decades #FirstPeoples of #Victoria and our allies have fought to correct the historical record in this country. Yoorrook would not have been possible without their strength and resistance.
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Premier Allan: 'We are endeavouring to address through
#treaty ...the fact that sovereignty was never ceded, that land dispossession has contributed to ongoing injustice and how the pathway of treaty will address that and make change into the future.'

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Counsel Assisting Tony McAvoy: 'The State of #Victoria has received many, many times over the benefits of that process of dispossession, has it not?'

Premier Allan: 'Yes, it has.'

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Premier Allan: 'I have learnt much that I did not know in terms of the #true #history of the dispossession, what the settlers, the colonisers did when they came to #Victoria . I did not know of the massacres, I am a shamed to say.'

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'there has been a lot of best endeavours, a lot of good intent but that good intent hasn't necessarily had the right practices of particularly self determination embedded in them.'

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Premier Allan: 'I want to acknowledge there is an unbroken line between the dispossession and violence of the past and the lives of #FirstPeoples today. I also want to acknowledge...that from the beginning until today the policies and practice of government have created the gap
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That concludes today's hearing. Thank you for following along.

#yoorrook hearings will resume on Wednesday 1 May when representatives from the Anglican, Uniting and Catholic churches will appear before the Commission.

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Premier Allan: 'There is more to do in our #education systems to make sure that this historical #truth -of the record that will come out of the #Yoorrook hearings in the future - is told through our through our education systems going forward.'

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Uncle Gary Murray: 'We need to reconstruct nations, clans, family groups and we need to reconstruct the organisations that provide services to us, whether it is the Advancement League or state agencies. We need to rethink the way we do business.'

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Premier Allan: [Self-determination] is making sure it is [a] transfer and sharing of power and resources, making sure that that is embedded in the work we do.'

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