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Te reo Māori advocate and Māori rights activist Te Ringa Mangu ‘Dun’ Mihaka has died.

Demi Trinca believes her sister would still be alive today if she was alerted to her former partner being released from custody early.

Bekkie-Rae Curren-Trinca was attempting to pack a bag to leave at the Warrnambool home she shared with former partner Paul McDonough in November 2019, when he suddenly arrived home.

The mother-of-one was chased from the home by McDonough, before she was grabbed like a "rag doll" and dragged back into the home.

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Her bruised and beaten body was discovered the next day.

She was flown to hospital in Melbourne with severe face and head trauma, but died seven days later from blunt-force trauma to the head.

'It could have been prevented'

Her family is now calling for victims of family violence to be alerted when their abusers are released from custody.

Currently, victims are only notified if they opt-in to a system, called the Victorian Victims Register.

The service updates victims on when an offender will be released into the community on parole, placed on a supervision order or released after their sentence.

"I never knew about the victim registry. I don't know anybody else that knows… It should be general knowledge that isn't," Trinca said.

"It should be something that is offered to the victims straight away – like how a restraining order is offered out.

"It shouldn't be left up to the victims to do that, and there should be more knowledge about the support systems out there."

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She said if her sister knew her former partner had been released from custody, she would have never returned to the flat.

"Bekkie-Rae was scared of him and went to their house to pack all (her) things up to leave him," Trinca said.

"That day he was released from jail and she was unaware of that.

"She thought it was safe.

"If she would have known when it was okay to retrieve her things and she wouldn't have been killed."

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Reform needed to protect victims

Premier Daniel Andrews told reporters today he was open to the idea of reforming the alert system, saying more needed to be done to support victims of family violence.

"That's part of the important discussion that we should have," he said.

"I'm happy to look any reform, any reform at all."

Andrews said he was also open to meeting with Curren-Trinca's family to discuss changes.

Trinca hoped her sister's death would spark change, and prompt more investment into services.

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Curren-Trinca had been in contact with Warrnambool domestic violence support services in the days before her death.

She had been given support accommodation by services, moved into a caravan park and stayed with various friends.

"It's something that can be prevented, but we are not doing enough," Trinca said.

"We all hear the stories, but our justice system aren't doing anything, our government's not doing anything.

"All I want to do is prevent other people going through the same thing that my sister did."

Her daughter was just two years old at the time of her death.

McDonough confessed the crime to a friend before he handed himself in to police.

He pleaded guilty to manslaughter earlier this year.

He has already spent three years in custody and will be eligible for parole after serving at least eight-and-a-half years.

Support is available from the National Sexual Assault, Domestic Family Violence Counselling Service at 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732).

More information on the Victorian Victims Register can be found here.

Families of preschool students say they are outraged after their children were asked to make "sorry" cards to First Nations people apologising for the actions of colonisers.

2GB listener Kim told Chris O'Keefe that her four-year-old twin grandchildren had participated in a lesson of painting cards apologising to First Nations people on National Sorry Day earlier this year at their preschool in Sydney's south.

One card read: "Sorry for hurting you. Sorry for hurting your land."

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The other read: "Sorry for hurting the Dharawal people. We will be kind now."

Kim said it was "woke with a capital W".

"It was just outrageous," she added.

"Interesting enough, there was nothing spoken about – they just came home with them.

"Their parents had to discuss Sorry Day with them."

She said her grandchildren were "very upset" and felt "very guilty".

"As a grandma, I said, 'You've done nothing wrong, it's all in the past, you have nothing to worry about, you're kind little children'," she said.

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Kim said her son and daughter-in-law – the children's parents – weren't impressed by the lesson, saying it wasn't age-appropriate.

"I'm shocked. It's not for them to talk about these things," she added.

"I don't understand why we have to make our little children feel guilty for the sins of our fathers, there's just nothing they've done wrong."

Other 2GB listeners told O'Keefe their children had learned about the colonisation of Australia in school.

"My children attended a beautiful little preschool, both came home at different times saying they'd learned that 'white men came here and took away the Aboriginals' children'," a parent told O'Keefe.

"They chopped down all the trees and poisoned the waterways and then they asked me, 'Are all white men bad?'"

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A First Nations family told O'Keefe their daughter was taught about the stolen generation in year one, before they could explain it to her.

"She had to learn it at a very young age because her great grandfather and grandmother were taken from their families which is a huge horrible concept to teach to her at any point," the family said to 2GB.

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Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has admitted the business case and costings of the cancelled 2026 Commonwealth Games was "hardly the greatest piece of work ever done".

Andrews also claimed he wasn't sure if individuals from the various organisations behind the business case for the event were currently working on any other major projects.

It comes days after the state government revealed taxpayers would pay $380 million in costs for the cancelled games.

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Andrews today conceded the business case behind the event was flawed but said some factors were not "forseeable".

"It's the fact that those numbers were landed very late," he told reporters today.

"The decisions were made based on those numbers very soon after.

"It's hardly the greatest piece of work ever done, that's very clear.

"Some things are foreseeable and some things aren't."

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The premier insisted he took "responsibility" for the abandoned games, saying he wasn't looking to shift blame.

"I'm not giving you the names of the people who did the work," he said.

"There's no need for me to do that because I'm accepting responsibility as the leader of the government for that.

"I'm not for a moment suggesting that people didn't do their best.

"I'm not for a moment suggesting that every single thing that affected these costs was foreseeable and ought to have been included. That would be unfair to say."

The opposition today questioned why the estimates weren't fact-checked much sooner.

"Why was due diligence not done? Why was that business case not properly tested?" Opposition Leader John Pesutto said.

"They must have known well before the announcement, that costs were blown out."

A parliamentary inquiry will soon commence into the axed games, with the results due by next year.

National has a slight lead over Labour in Napier, but many voters are still undecided.

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