"This premier, is a double dispossession" Yoorrook Deputy Chair Travis Lovett states in his opening remarks to Victorian @JacintaAllanMP at yesterday's Land, Sky and Water Hearings. Follow Yoorrook to stay updated on First Peoples true history. #FirstPeoples #JacintaAllan

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

"I felt deeply privileged to have that experience last week and I would love my kids and lots of other children and families to be able to be part of those conversations." 3/3 #firstpeoples #victoria #truthtelling

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. #firstpeoples #firstnations #victoria

"and #treaty is that we can share in this celebration of #FirstPeoples' culture, and that is something that I am particularly energised by, the opportunity to broaden those experiences for all #Victorians. 2/

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." #firstpeoples #firstnations #victoria

"when #FirstPeoples are empowered to take control of their affairs." Read the Premier's full statement: yoorrookjusticecommission.org.au/wp-content/upl…

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." #firstpeoples #victoria

Premier Allan: "...I will acknowledge the statement that is very difficult for #FirstPeoples to purchase land on the open market. That prime land that you spoke to...good land is often associated with a good water source and the value goes together so I do acknowledge that."

"that the squatters sought out and they were the first to be taken, and they are now the most expensive in the state and is it the case that #FirstPeoples in #Victoria have to get used to the concept that they will never get the best of their lands back?" 2/

Counsel Assisting McAvoy: "Premier, you would accept that it is no coincidence that the lands which were [#firstpeoples] villages & ceremony and activities, ritual, were also the land that were in the best locations, closest to water and animals and they are the very locations 1

"our community and I just want government to reflect on that." 2/2 #firstpeoples #firstnational #victoria #springst

"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." #firstpeoples #firstnations #victoria #springst

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." #firstpeoples #truthtelling #victoria #springst

"and it brings me a sense of shame and distress that this was done - this was done by people taking all in the pursuit of taking land off #FirstPeoples and...to know that the consequence of that was the impact of death and dispossession for First Peoples going forward." 3/3

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." #firstpeoples #victoria #springst #truthtelling

"Peoples' culture and connection to country, it is also had that inter-generational impact of economic disadvantage that comes from not being connected to your land." 2/2 #Firstpeoples #victoria #truthtelling #springst

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." #firstpeoples #Victoria #firstnations #springst

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." #firstpeoples #Springst #victoria

"that exists between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Victorians." 2/2 #firstpeoples #firstnations #victoria #springst