- Victorian Greens members elect Gunnai-Kurnai/Gunditjmara woman Lidia Thorpe as the new (and first Aboriginal) Greens senator for Victoria.
- The Victorian government commits to create a truth and justice commission to “formally recognise historical wrongs and ongoing injustices” against Aboriginal people, the first state or territory to do so. [5] The commission will work in parallel with the treaty process already under way, and will be designed and led by the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria.