The LIV is committed to driving better outcomes for First Nations clients and creating a welcoming and inclusive culture for First Nations legal professionals. In making this commitment, we recognise First Nations people’s fundamental right to self-determination. This right underpins the importance of community-led solutions and of working in partnership and building relationships with First Nations and community-led organisations.

— Tom Ballantyne Accs(PI) —

LIV President

We must ensure all persons, including First Nations people, have access to the same rights and to the same justice as everyone else. It is important to recognise how the system we are operating in has locked out First Nations people.

— Adam Awty —

LIV Chief Executive

It should move beyond aspiration and create clear accountability for meaningful action. As one of the First Nations representatives who contributed to shaping the LIV’s RAP, I think its strength is a genuine effort to embed reconciliation into the LIV’s work and its relationship with the profession.

— Tekan Cochrane —

Executive Officer of Tarwirri, the Indigenous Law Students and Lawyers Association of Victoria

Reconciliation Australia commends the Law Institute of Victoria on the formal endorsement of its second Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan.

— Karen Mundine —

Reconciliation Australia Chief Executive Officer