Victoria’s Yoorrook Justice Commission will soon wind up its formal hearings, with its final recommendations to the state government due next year. As a number of other states plan their own truth-telling processes, Yoorrook’s Chair, Wamba Wamba and Wergaia elder Prof Eleanor Bourke, speaks to...

Julian Assange has been released from a British prison to seal a US plea deal. The WikiLeaks founder is due to be sentenced at a hearing on the island of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific, before returning home to Australian soil. Foreign affairs and defence correspondent...