The Victorian Koorie Records Taskforce (VKRT) was established by the Victorian Government in 2001, in response to Recommendation 23 of the 1997 report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families (the Bringing Them Home report).

Since then, Public Record Office Victoria has auspiced the work of the Taskforce, which comprises representatives from a range of government agencies, community services organisations and service providers to the Stolen Generations.

The Taskforce's terms of reference are to:

• develop common access guidelines to Indigenous personal, family and community records as appropriate to the jurisdiction and in accordance with established privacy priniciples;
• advise government whether any church or other non-government record-holding agency should be assisted to preserve and index its records and administer access;
• advise government on memorandums of understanding for dealing with inter-state enquiries and for the inter-state transfer of files and information;
• advise government and churches generally on policy relating to access to and uses of indigenous personal, family and community information; and
• advise government on the need to introduce or amend legislation to put these policies and practices into place.

VKRT Organisation Members

Resources developed by the VKRT

wilam naling ... knowing who you are ...
Improving access to records of the Stolen Generations: a report to the Victorian Government from the Victorian Koorie Records Taskforce.

Finding Your Story
A resource manual for the records of the Stolen Generations in Victoria.

VKRT Bringing Them Home Report 2001
The VKRT released the Finding Your Story Community Forums Summary Report in 2001 after the completion of eight community forums across Victoria.

For more information please contact the Executive Officer of the Taskforce:

Simon Flagg
Coordinator
Koorie Records Unit
Tel: (03) 9348 5629
simon.flagg@prov.vic.gov.au

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