According to a historic investigation led by Aboriginal people, the Indigenous people of Victoria, Australia, were the victims of genocide by British colonists.
In the 20 years following the colonization of the state, beginning in the early 1830s, the Yoorrook Justice Commission discovered that sickness and violence had slashed the local Indigenous population by three-quarters.
This report contained 100 recommendations to “redress” the harm caused by “invasion and occupation”; nevertheless, several of the writers disagreed with the “key findings” that were not identified.
As Australia’s first official “truth-telling” investigation, the Commission was established in 2021 with the responsibility of looking into the “systemic injustices” that the state’s Indigenous people had experienced in the past and present.
