Yoorrook Justice Commission

What Yoorrook Justice Commission does

Yoorrook Justice Commission was Victoria's and Australia's first formal truth-telling inquiry, established in 2022 under Letters Patent from the Crown and decommissioned on 30 June 2025. Operated as a statutory government commission with 23 employees based in Melbourne, it conducted a four-year investigation into historic and ongoing systemic injustices perpetrated against First Peoples through colonisation, spanning 10 focus areas: access to records, child protection, criminal justice, economic prosperity, education, health, housing, land sky and waters, political life, and redress.

The Commission's outputs include Yoorrook for Transformation (a five-volume interim report with 100 recommendations), Yoorrook for Justice (46 recommendations on criminal justice and child protection), and Yoorrook Truth Be Told (the Official Public Record of Victoria's colonial history written in First Peoples' storytelling tradition). Its core product is the Truth Archive — a living archive of 1,300+ submissions, oral testimonies, visual artworks, and 10,000+ documents from government agencies and education providers — supported by a Recommendations Portal and Focus Areas content surface, all built on standard web infrastructure and hosted/maintained by State Library Victoria.

Yoorrook's business model was non-commercial: it was entirely funded by the Victorian Government and operated as a public inquiry with no revenue-generating products or services. Its go-to-market was event-driven — 400+ community events, 65 public hearing days, and 9,000+ engagements with First Peoples across Victoria. Following decommissioning, ongoing accountability for the 146 total recommendations was transferred to the First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria as the post-commission advocacy body.

Name

Yoorrook Justice Commission

Legal name

Yoorrook Justice Commission

Website

https://yoorrookjusticecommission.org.au

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Closed

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Yoorrook Justice Commission was Victoria's and Australia's first formal truth-telling inquiry (2022–2025), a statutory government commission that collected 1,300+ submissions and 10,000+ documents to produce 146 recommendations for First Peoples' systemic reform, decommissioned 30 June 2025.

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Product category

Government Truth-Telling Inquiry Services

NAICS

Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities (9221), Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities (922), Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities (92219)

akta.pro primary industry

Transitional Justice, Accountability & Reparations (BPADAGAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Human Rights Monitoring, Documentation & Advocacy (BPADAGAK), National Archives, Records & Information Governance (BPAIAAAG)

Keywords

• Truth-telling inquiry
• Government royal commission
• Indigenous justice investigation
• Public truth archive
• Systemic reform recommendations

Headquarters

HQ city

Melbourne

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

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B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Government funding: The Yoorrook Justice Commission was established by the Victorian Government and operated as a statutory inquiry funded by public money. The Commission completed its work and was decommissioned on 30 June 2025.

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Core offering

The Yoorrook Justice Commission was Victoria's and Australia's first formal truth-telling inquiry into historic and ongoing systemic injustices perpetrated against First Peoples through colonisation. It conducted public hearings, received submissions, and produced reports containing 146 recommendations for systemic reform. The Commission's Official Public Record is preserved by State Library Victoria as caretaker in trust.

Product overview

Yoorrook Justice Commission operates a digital information platform serving as Victoria's official truth-telling archive and reporting portal. The core offerings include the Truth Archive (living archive of submissions and testimonies), three major report products (Yoorrook for Transformation with 100 recommendations, Yoorrook Truth Be Told official public record, and Yoorrook for Justice with 46 recommendations), a Recommendations Portal, and Focus Areas covering 10 investigative domains. The website also provides Take Action resources and support resources. The platform is operated and maintained by State Library Victoria as caretaker of the Official Public Record.

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Products and services

• Truth Archive A living archive preserving thousands of truths shared by First Peoples, including personal stories, historical records, visual artworks, and oral testimonies collected over four years through community visits, submissions, and public hearings.
• Yoorrook for Transformation Final interim report consisting of five volumes with a companion Summary Report, containing forensic analysis of evidence on systemic injustices from land to health and housing, with 100 recommendations for reform.
• Yoorrook Truth Be Told Official Public Record drawing on evidence given to Yoorrook and secondary sources, providing a detailed account of Victoria's colonial history written in First Peoples' storytelling tradition, blending oral history, collective memoir, and rigorous research.
• Yoorrook for Justice Report containing 46 recommendations for reform across the criminal justice and child protection systems.
• Recommendations Portal Digital portal presenting 146 recommendations for systemic reform addressing past and ongoing injustices across child protection, criminal justice, land, education, health, housing, economic life, political life, and access to records.

Quantifiable outcome

• 146 recommendations for systemic reform (100 in Yoorrook for Transformation + 46 in Yoorrook for Justice)
• +5 more outcomes

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Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• First Peoples' Assembly of VictoriaflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018The First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria is the independent, democratically elected body representing Traditional Owners and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Victoria. It is the Voice for Victorian First Peoples and plays a central role in Treaty negotiations with the Victorian Government. The Assembly will continue to push for Yoorrook's 146 recommendations to be implemented in full as an accountability mechanism now that Yoorrook has concluded.
• State Library VictoriacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerState Library Victoria operates and maintains the Yoorrook Justice Commission website and serves as the caretaker in trust for the Official Public Record (Yoorrook Truth Be Told). This is a foundational operational partnership ensuring the preservation and accessibility of the Commission's work for future generations.
• Victorian GovernmentflagshipOthersThe Victorian Government established Yoorrook Justice Commission as Victoria's first formal truth-telling inquiry and provided its mandate and funding. The Commission's final reports were tabled in the Victorian Parliament on 1 July 2025. The government is the primary addressee of Yoorrook's 146 recommendations for systemic reform.

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Direct peers

• Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (Australia): Australian statutory royal commission (2019-2023) investigating systemic harms against people with disability, with extensive public hearings, submissions, and a multi-volume final report with recommendations. Closely comparable in operating model, evidentiary scope, and decommissioning-with-report-handover pattern.
• South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission: The post-apartheid truth commission (1996-1998) that collected testimony on human rights violations under apartheid. Closely comparable as a foundational truth-telling model — collecting victim statements, holding public hearings, and producing a final report — that directly influenced Yoorrook's design as a first-of-kind inquiry in its jurisdiction.
• National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (Canada): Canadian federal inquiry (2016-2019) investigating systemic violence against Indigenous women and girls, with extensive hearings, submissions, and a final report with Calls for Justice. Directly comparable as a national truth-telling inquiry focused on systemic injustices against Indigenous peoples with a multi-volume final report and recommendations framework.
• Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Canada's national truth commission (2008-2015) investigating the legacy of Indian Residential Schools. Direct structural peer: statutory inquiry documenting historical and systemic injustices against Indigenous peoples, producing a final report with Calls to Action and a National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation as enduring archive — closely comparable to Yoorrook's mandate, methodology, and outputs.
• Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (Australia): Australian statutory royal commission (2013-2017) that conducted extensive public hearings, collected thousands of submissions, and tabled a final report with recommendations. Directly comparable in institutional form, evidentiary methodology (private sessions, public hearings, document collection), and the pattern of final decommissioning with report handover.
• Waitangi Tribunal (New Zealand): New Zealand's permanent commission of inquiry addressing Crown breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi against Māori. Comparable as a standing truth-telling and Treaty-interpretation body investigating historical and ongoing injustices against Indigenous peoples, producing reports that inform Crown-Māori settlement processes.

Broad incumbents

• Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission: Victoria's statutory body addressing discrimination and human rights under the Equal Opportunity Act and Charter of Human Rights. Comparable as a state-level incumbent with overlapping mandate on race discrimination and systemic justice issues raised by Yoorrook (e.g., the recommended Equal Opportunity Act amendments).
• Australian Human Rights Commission: Australia's national human rights institution investigating complaints and conducting inquiries into systemic human rights issues. Comparable as a broader incumbent in the same human rights documentation and advocacy space, though operating on an ongoing basis across all protected attributes rather than as a focused truth-telling commission.

Others

• First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria: The democratically elected body representing Traditional Owners and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Victoria, established to negotiate Treaty with the Victorian Government. Not a commission, but the designated accountability mechanism that will continue to push for Yoorrook's recommendations post-decommissioning, making it a structurally adjacent institutional peer.
• Healing Foundation (Australia): National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led organisation focused on intergenerational trauma healing and Stolen Generations reparations. Comparable as an adjacent Indigenous-led organisation working on redress, healing, and systemic reform — themes directly addressed by Yoorrook's recommendations on redress, child protection, and trauma.

Market position

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Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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