Emotional relatives of Victoria's MH17 victims have told a coroner they want justice for their loved ones.
Deputy state coroner Iain West is investigating the deaths of 17 Victorian residents killed in the disaster.
All 298 people on board the Malaysia Airlines flight, including 38 Australian nationals and residents, died when the plane was downed over eastern Ukraine on July 17 last year.
It's thought Russian-backed rebels shot down the jet, which was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
Among the Victorians killed were Albert and Maree Rizk, of Sunbury.
Their daughter Vanessa on Tuesday described her father as "the most loyal, hilarious, intelligent man".
She said she and her brother James were comforted that their parents, who were returning from a holiday, were together.
But they will never get closure until someone is convicted.
"We will always pray that justice will appear someday," Vanessa told the Coroners Court of Victoria.
James said his mother was the backbone of their family.
Mrs Rizk, who loved Christmas time, never realised how special she was or the impact she had on her children's lives, he told the court.
Marco Grippeling's wife Angela Nagel will never get over losing her "humble, gentle, caring" husband.
She said she hoped those responsible would be pursued and that Australia would never forget those lost.
"Everything is gone, everything is broken," Ms Nagel the court.
"My dreams are destroyed."
Many Australians were on the plane because it was due to meet a connecting flight to Melbourne.
Crash investigators have said the wreckage was "consistent with the damage that would be expected from a large number of high-energy objects that penetrated the aircraft from outside".
Investigators were forced to use DNA evidence to identify many of the victims.
Professor David Ranson, of the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, travelled overseas after the disaster to help identify victims and has provided the joint inquest with a number of reports.
Detective Superintendent Andrew Donoghoe, senior investigating officer of Australia's MH17 response, also appeared in court on Tuesday to summarise international efforts after the tragedy.
He said the criminal investigation was ongoing, with more than 100 witness statements taken to date and a number of persons of interest.
Coroner West will hand down his findings on Wednesday.
He also travelled to Amsterdam after the crash, as an Australian representative.
THE 17 VICTIMS WHO LIVED IN VICTORIA:
* Itamar Avnon, 27, a dual Dutch-Israeli national studying at Swinburne University, living in Windsor
* Frankie and Liam Davison, 53 and 57. Frankie taught at Toorak College in Mount Eliza, while husband Liam was an award-winning novelist and a teacher
* Marco Grippeling, 48, a Dutch national IT consultant living in Melbourne with his wife Angela
* Gary and Mona Lee, of Glen Iris, who emigrated from Malaysia in the 1970s
* Emiel Mahler and Elaine Teoh, who lived in Melbourne, Ms Teoh, was from Penang and Mr Mahler from The Netherlands
* Gerry and Mary Menke, who owned an abalone pearl company in Mallacoota
* Albert and Maree Rizk, of Sunbury. Mr Rizk, a Sunbury estate agent, and his wife were returning from a European holiday
* Family of five Shaliza Dewa and Hans van den Hende and children Piers, Marnix and Margaux, from Eynesbury, west of Melbourne
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