PROFESSOR ELEANOR A BOURKE AM, Chair MS SUE-ANNE HUNTER, Commissioner MR TRAVIS LOVETT, Commissioner

I also want to thank the tireless effort of Counsel Assisting and the Yoorrook staff and I thank all the people who have made these hearings possible, made them available to people who are not in the room with us and I thank those who come 45 and see us regularly and sit in the room to hear. [...] I acknowledge the Wadawurrung, the Wathaurong, the Bunurong and the Boonwurrung people as the Traditional Owners of the Country on where I live and communities I represent as a member of Parliament and pay my respects to the Elders I have met and have had the 20 honour of working alongside during my time as an MP and I acknowledge that Sovereignty was never ceded. [...] So, from my perspective, the issues that we have encountered and the way that we've tried to deal with some of the structural 30 inequalities in the way that the processes work is to recognise that sometimes it's not about putting all of your effort into the acute presentations of the problems. [...] We basically set the mechanism of engagement, the timelines of engagement, 25 through the budget and finance committee and, of course, the Premier chairs that and I need to make sure that the Premier is comfortable with the processes that we're putting in place. [...] And it will be a demonstration of how across and appreciative of the intervention 30 that the policy proposal is bringing to government that will, I think, be the inherent weight and the value of such a proposal, not so much the equality of external and professionalised business cases.