Victorian Indigenous leader calls for urgent changes to child protection and justice systems

Co-chair of Victoria's First Peoples' Assembly says we can't wait until 2024 for a state-wide treaty and then begin negotiations on this work'

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Geraldine Atkinson, co-chair of Victoria's First Peoples' Assembly, has warned that urgent reform of the state's child protection and criminal justice systems cannot wait until a treaty is reached and should happen now.

Atkinson appeared at the Yoorrook Justice Commission on Tuesday morning, telling Victoria's Indigenous truth-telling inquiry that work was needed to counter the over-representation of First Nations people in the systems.

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