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Victorian government to expunge criminal records wrongly given to Stolen Generations survivors

Posted on March 8, 2018June 25, 2025 by Dissent

SBS News reports:

Members of the Stolen Generation and others taken into state care will have their public records updated to remove criminal convictions recorded against their names after they were removed from their family.

Following an NITV News investigation that exposed the systematic practice of attaching criminal convictions to forcibly removed children, the Victorian Labor Government launched an an inquiry that involved consulting with police and Indigenous advocates, the Government has tabled in parliament today a letter outlining a range of actions that will now be taken.

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