Victorias Indigenous people experienced genocide, truth-telling inquiry says
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This historic truth-telling process finally acknowledges what Aboriginal Victorians have always known: - that systematic genocide was committed against their ancestors. The evidence is overwhelming: mass killings, forced child removals, cultural destruction that decimated populations by 75% in just two decades. These aren't ancient wrongs but ongoing injustices that continue today through economic exclusion and systemic racism. It is time to face the truth with contrition and commitment to doing better.
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