Yoorrook’s next block of hearings starts today with a focus on justice and child protection systems. You can watch or listen at any time via their website.
“Yoorrook will investigate the reasons why current approaches continue to fail First Peoples."
Chair of the #Yoorrook Justice Commission Professor Eleanor Bourke AM will lead hearings focusing on the child protection and criminal justice systems: yoorrookjusticecommission.or…
Today we honour Boon Wurrung, Dja Dja Wurrung, Woiwurrung and Yorta Yorta senior Elder Uncle Jack Charles. He was the first Elder to appear at a formal hearing with the Yoorrook Justice Commission and encouraged other First Peoples to share their truths.
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"It is no understatement to say that truth telling can be an uncomfortable, deeply exposing process, but at its core, it serves as a bedrock for change and transformation." - Commissioner @SueAnneHunter on #Yoorrook's purpose at @Swinburne's Annual Reconciliation Lecture
Working with @BOM_au teams always blows my mind. As did yesterday’s amazing interdisciplinary workshop looking at community fire safety in a plausible 2040 climate. #FireClimate2022
The lingering thought for me today is that while there is plenty of practical intra-sector work to do, the hardest work might be in how we work as a clever sector to bring in all the other diverse and powerful players needed to respond to the challenges ahead.
Fantastic, important conversation today at the MCG about the mental health of those who work in the emergency services sector, hosted by @ESF_Victoria with the support of @HawthornFC 🧵with TW
#mentalHealth#betterTogether
We have a long way to go to create societies, workplaces, systems and services to help every single one of our 125,000 emergency-focused volunteers and staff across Victoria to be mentally healthy.
Proud to be part of @ESF_Victoria playing a role in helping the sector to be better together.
To those who are in the sector and part of that wider family: we might not have heard *your* story today but we were - and are - definitely thinking of, and working hard for you.
This stinks. I work every day with charities who have to fight year-round to fund high impact, life-changing services. Aust Gov funding $18m ‘future leaders’ program with no tender, opaque decisions, dubious governance, no staff etc.
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‘There is no doubt that it will be challenging for participants, Commissioners, representatives of Government and authorities to undertake this examination of our history and ongoing instances of injustice’ 1/3
As the world changes, so must we. Walking the tightrope between changing governments' and community attitudes, as a sector, we must be ready and open to change to meet these expectations @EMCConference 2022 is confirmed for Tues 5 – Wed 6 July.
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Anjali Sharma after the decision was handed down: “The federal court today may have accepted the minister’s legal arguments over ours but that does not change the minister’s moral obligation to take action on climate change.”