Landmark Inquiry Concludes British Committed Genocide Against Indigenous Australians in Victoria

 

A historic Aboriginal-led investigation has concluded that British colonists committed genocide against Indigenous Australians in the state of Victoria. The Yoorrook Justice Commission, established in 2021 as Australia's first formal truth-telling inquiry, released a damning report revealing that colonisation brought about the near-destruction of Aboriginal communities through violence, disease, and systemic abuse.

 

The Commission found that the Indigenous population of Victoria plummeted by 75% within just two decades of British settlement in the early 1830s. By 1851, the number of Indigenous people had dropped from 60,000 to just 15,000. The report stated unequivocally, “This was genocide.”

 

Drawing on more than 1,300 submissions and over two months of public hearings, the Commission documented a harrowing history of atrocities including mass killings, disease, sexual violence, forced exclusion, child removals, cultural erasure, linguicide, and environmental destruction. It called for comprehensive “redress” to acknowledge and address these extensive human rights violations, including potential reparations.

 

“This report shines a light on hard truths,” said Victoria Premier Jacinta Allan, whose Labor government promised to “carefully consider” the findings and recommendations. Among the 100 recommendations made were sweeping reforms to the education system, increased support for Indigenous-led health services, and formal apologies for injustices, such as the exclusion of Aboriginal soldiers from post-war land grant programs.

 

Racism in the state’s health system was described as “endemic” by the Commission, which urged greater investment in Indigenous healthcare and stronger policies to recruit and retain Aboriginal staff.

 

Jill Gallagher, head of Victoria’s leading Aboriginal health organisation, said the Commission's finding of genocide was “indisputable.” Speaking to the ABC, she said, “We don't blame anyone alive today for these atrocities, but it is the responsibility of those of us alive today to accept that truth — and all Victorians today must accept, recognise and reconcile with these factual findings.”

 

Notably, three of the Commission’s five members — Sue-Anne Hunter, Maggie Walter, and Anthony North — did not approve of the inclusion of unspecified “key findings” in the final report. No additional explanation was given regarding their objections.

 

Despite this, the report stands as a landmark in Australia’s ongoing reckoning with its colonial past. It forms part of a broader national movement toward reconciliation, which includes treaty processes and efforts to amplify Indigenous voices in political decision-making.

 

However, progress has been uneven across the country. While similar truth-telling commissions are underway in other states and territories, some have stalled or been abandoned. In Queensland, for instance, a truth inquiry was scrapped following the election of a new Liberal-National government, replacing Labor.

 

Nationally, the question of how to meaningfully recognise First Nations peoples remains highly contested. In October 2023, Australians voted down a proposed constitutional amendment to establish the Voice to Parliament — a national Indigenous advisory body — in a divisive referendum that left many Aboriginal leaders disheartened.

 

The Yoorrook Justice Commission’s findings underscore the urgent need to confront uncomfortable truths about the foundations of modern Australia. While the inquiry focused solely on Victoria, its implications are national, challenging all Australians to engage in a process of truth, recognition, and ultimately reconciliation.

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from BBC  2025-07-03

 

 

Yet the Aussies here will accuse others of genocide.....

Surely the statute of limitations has expired?

A "truth-telling inquiry" sounds somewhat Orwellian. 

 

No doubt the Aussies will eventually go the way of NZ. We've been paying for the alleged sins of our forefathers since 1975 via the Waitangi Tribunal. 

 

Billions consequently wasted by the Maori overlords, and a more divisive culture than there ever was before. 

12 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

Surely the statute of limitations has expired?

Yes, one would imagine so.

 

Compensation is generally due for victims of a crime, and paid by the criminals.  That cannot happen here- both are long dead.  If your great-great-great-great-great grandfather did something bad to my great-great-great-great-great grandfather, of course that should be acknowledged. But it doesn't mean that I get compensated for it by "someone", which usually means the government, which means all taxpayers. Even those whose families weren't even in the country at the time. 

 

The same situation pops up everywhere that natives demand "justice". It starts with wanting the historical record corrected, which is fine and good. But inevitably, it devolves into a demand for payment. 

3 minutes ago, Gsxrnz said:

A "truth-telling inquiry" sounds somewhat Orwellian. 

 

No doubt the Aussies will eventually go the way of NZ. We've been paying for the alleged sins of our forefathers since 1975 via the Waitangi Tribunal. 

 

Billions consequently wasted by the Maori overlords, and a more divisive culture than there ever was before. 

Same in Canada. White liberal guilt demands that all claims made by First Nations people are met with only credulity. And a large pot of cash. The idea that claims require evidence goes out the window.  Now the government is spending over $30 billion (with a "b") a year on various native issues and the like. 

I wonder if they'll be having an inquiry into all the land stolen from Aboriginial tribes by other Aboriginal tribes in brutal, ongoing warefare over extended periods of time? 

 

Surely the descendants of the winning tribe should pay reparations to the descendants of the losing tribe?

 

No? No interest in that? Didn't think so...

 

 

3 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

Same in Canada. White liberal guilt demands that all claims made by First Nations people are met with only credulity. And a large pot of cash. The idea that claims require evidence goes out the window.  Now the government is spending over $30 billion (with a "b") a year on various native issues and the like. 

 

I'm with you. I didn't know I was a racist until my government passed legislation to forcefully make me one.

 

We have two national anthems, same as you. But ours are English and Maori. 

 

And about five years ago, activists managed to make the "Maori new-year" a national public holiday.  I kid you not - nobody ever heard of such a thing as the Maori new year, but liberal white guilt, wokeism, and an organsucking Marxist governmant made it a "thing". 

We sent all our criminals down there for 80 years.

What did they think was going to happen?
I think in Tasmania they pretty much killed the entire population.

They had a White Australia policy so of course they didn’t want black people there.

And still don’t.

 

 

 

2 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

I wonder if they'll be having an inquiry into all the land stolen from Aboriginial tribes by other Aboriginal tribes in brutal, ongoing warefare over extended periods of time? 

 

Surely the descendants of the winning tribe should pay reparations to the descendants of the losing tribe?

 

No? No interest in that? Didn't think so...

 

 

That is exactly what they want!  The descendants of the winning tribe (the Anglos) to pay them off. 

 

It is almost as ridicuous as the cringe-inducing "land acknowledgements" that accompany so many events and meetings in Canada. Example: 

 

“I (we) wish to acknowledge this land on which the University of Toronto operates. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.”

 

Bleagh

15 minutes ago, Gsxrnz said:

Billions consequently wasted by the Maori overlords, and a more divisive culture than there ever was before.

 

Yes, this type of inquiry is an excellent way of sowing division and hatred between people. 

 

And of course, however much white liberals bow and scrape to appease their white guilt, it will never be enough.

1 minute ago, JonnyF said:

Yes, this type of inquiry is an excellent way of sowing division and hatred between people. 

You don’t think genocide sows any division and hatred?

5 minutes ago, MalcolmB said:

You don’t think genocide sows any division and hatred?

Not if it's done properly!

2 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

Not if it's done properly!

 

Classic black humour, 'scuse the pun. 

Reparations in the trillions.

 

I identify with all victims.  

 

Paypal is fine.  

2 minutes ago, MalcolmB said:

You don’t think genocide sows any division and hatred?

 

You sound like the type of person who angrily brings up the time your big brother punched you in the nose while having a family Christmas lunch 50 years later. 😃

 

What happened centuries ago has nothing to do with the people actually living on Australian soil today. It's simply an excuse for certain groups to demand money from other groups. Why should a second generation Asian immigrant to Australia for example, pay taxes for this nonsense?

I don’t know about ‘white guilt’ but goodness there’s definitely evidence of ‘hypersensitive triggers’.

 

 

 

2 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I don’t know about ‘white guilt’ but goodness there’s definitely evidence of ‘hypersensitive triggers’.

 

 

 

 

Nothing to add to the debate?

20 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

 

You sound like the type of person who angrily brings up the time your big brother punched you in the nose while having a family Christmas lunch 50 years later. 😃

 

What happened centuries ago has nothing to do with the people actually living on Australian soil today. It's simply an excuse for certain groups to demand money from other groups. Why should a second generation Asian immigrant to Australia for example, pay taxes for this nonsense?

I can’t see anyone asking for money above. 
You brought that up. 
They just want the truth acknowledged.

You sound like one of those Holocaust deniers.

30 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

 

You sound like the type of person who angrily brings up the time your big brother punched you in the nose while having a family Christmas lunch 50 years later. 😃

 

What happened centuries ago has nothing to do with the people actually living on Australian soil today. It's simply an excuse for certain groups to demand money from other groups. Why should a second generation Asian immigrant to Australia for example, pay taxes for this nonsense?

The subject is a genocide,  it is not someone getting punched in the nose.

 

But thanks for a perfect example of a dismissive false equivalence.

6 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

The subject is a genocide,  it someone getting punched in the nose.

 

But thanks for a perfect example of a dismissive false equivalence.

 

32 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

Why should a second generation Asian immigrant to Australia for example, pay taxes for this nonsense?

Because they come over on dinghys getting free meals and hotel accommodations and live off welfare?

26 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

What happened centuries ago has nothing to do with the people actually living on Australian soil today. It's simply an excuse for certain groups to demand money from other groups. Why should a second generation Asian immigrant to Australia for example, pay taxes for this nonsense?

“all consequent damage and loss, including economic and non-economic loss for genocide, crimes against humanity and denial of freedoms”.

 

That's exactly what this is about though and the lists of redress is astounding.

 

Truth-telling commission calls for redress, financial compensation for Aboriginal Victorians

Yoorrook’s report says redress should include monetary compensation, tax relief and the restitution of ownership rights for traditional lands, waters and natural resources to First Peoples.

https://archive.ph/6E4uF

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/truth-telling-commission-calls-for-redress-for-aboriginal-victorians-20250701-p5mbjz.html

 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, JonnyF said:

Surely the statute of limitations has expired?

 

Only a white fellah would consider this as viable argument.

 

35 minutes ago, Gsxrnz said:

38 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

Not if it's done properly!

 

Classic black humour, 'scuse the pun.

 

Classic <deleted>, 'scuse the idiots.

18 minutes ago, MalcolmB said:

I can’t see anyone asking for money above. 
You brought that up. 
They just want the truth acknowledged.

You sound like one of those Holocaust deniers.

 

Wait for it...  Wait for it...

 

From the OP:  It called for comprehensive “redress” to acknowledge and address these extensive human rights violations, including potential reparations.

 

2 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

Wait for it...  Wait for it...

 

From the OP:  It called for comprehensive “redress” to acknowledge and address these extensive human rights violations, including potential reparations.

 

So we should deny what occurred so we don’t have to pay out?

or is it something deeper like Holocaust denial?

8 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

Wait for it...  Wait for it...

 

From the OP:  It called for comprehensive “redress” to acknowledge and address these extensive human rights violations, including potential reparations.

 

Why is reparations for genocide suddenly a problem?

 

14 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

Wait for it...  Wait for it...

 

From the OP:  It called for comprehensive “redress” to acknowledge and address these extensive human rights violations, including potential reparations.

 

It's always been about the money.

The Aboriginal elites will rake it in and the average bloke will get nothing.

1 hour ago, JonnyF said:

Surely the statute of limitations has expired?

 

More to the point

 

Why are they trying to apply today's Laws and interpretations, to something that happened 200 years ago ?
 

No different to the slave trade reparations, being howled about today.

 

All those that were present and directly effected, can parade their arses in Court, and explain why the should get compo.

8 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Why is reparations for genocide suddenly a problem?

 

 

Because it's not "suddenly".  It happened hundreds of years ago.  The people who did it are long dead.  The people they did it to are long dead. 

 

I can't wait for the kerfuffle to be over in Ukraine, so I can go over and demand reparations for the turnip patches that my grandparents got pushed off around 1900.  And I don't understand why anyone would ask me for reparation money for stuff that happened in the USA when my grandparents were on their turnip patches a world away.  It's the same in Aus...  They're looking for free money.  And the politicians have figured out that's the key to buying votes.  Agree to give them free money if they vote the "right way".

 

 

1 minute ago, emptypockets said:

It's always been about the money.

The Aboriginal elites will rake it in and the average bloke will get nothing.

A newly minted concern for ‘average bloke Aborigines’ shows up.