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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Victoria's Indigenous truth-telling inquiry is calling on the state government to create an independent watchdog to tackle police complaints, a First Nations-controlled child protection system and to stop detaining children under the age of 16.
During a year-long inquiry, the Yoorrook Justice Commission found evidence of ongoing systemic racism and gross human rights abuses committed against First Peoples in the state of Victoria.
Yoorrook is also calling for training for all Victorians working in policing, corrections, youth justice, child protection and some health roles after the commission heard evidence of racial bias and over-policing against First Peoples.
The commission has acknowledged progress has been made in some of these areas, including the Victorian government's recently introduced bail reforms and its plan to eventually raise the criminal age of responsibility to 14.
"In effect, this means an Aboriginal child in our community can be in a pipeline to the justice system before being born," Wergaia/Wamba Wamba Elder and chair of the commission Eleanor Bourke wrote in the forward to Yoorrook's report.
In early December last year, during Yoorrook hearings, Premier Daniel Andrews conceded the state's child protection system was "troubling" and "not designed properly".
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