Media releases

VACCHO Applauds the Victorian Government for the Repeal of Public Drunkenness Laws

Posted by VACCHO Communications Team on 23 August 2019

Tags: Tanya Day, Trevor Pearce, Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Drunkenness Laws Public Drunkenness Laws, Aboriginal-led solutions, truth-telling, Aboriginal voices, Victorian State Government, Daniel Andrews, Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System , VACCHO CEO, CTG, Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, ACCHO, ACCO, VACCHO, Victorian Government, Australian Federal Government

The Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation commends the Victorian Government’s announcement yesterday that it would abolish archaic public drunkenness legislation.

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Victoria must learn lessons from the NT’s Royal Commission on youth detention

Posted by VACCHO Communications on 22 November 2017

Tags: custody, Koori kids, discrimination, holistic, therapeutic treatment, child protection, family support, family violence, restorative justice, intervention, community-based, culturally safe, inter-generational trauma, social determinants, youth incarceration rates, Royal Commission, justice community-led diversion programs is an integral part of improving the health and wellbeing outcomes for at-risk Aboriginal young people, community-led diversion programs is an integral part of improving the health and wellbeing outcomes, community-led, prevention, prevention, Increased funding, early intervention, Increased funding, recommendations Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory, Victorian Government, Daniel Andrews, Labor Government, Ms Jill Gallagher AO, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, discrimination, State government, self-determination, Aboriginal Victorians, Victorian Government, Aboriginal specific wellbeing, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, Aboriginal health, health and wellbeing, ACCHO, ACCO, VACCHO, Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation

The Victorian peak body for Aboriginal health and wellbeing has called on the Victorian Government to take heed of the recommendations of the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory.

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Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation Inc.

Media releases

VACCHO Applauds the Victorian Government for the Repeal of Public Drunkenness Laws

Victoria must learn lessons from the NT’s Royal Commission on youth detention