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Independent body to oversee historic Victorian Treaty deal
The First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria has voted on Friday to adopt Treaty authority principles to take into negotiations with the state government.
The principles would set out the Assembly’s position on establishing an independent authority to facilitate the first Treaty deal in Australia’s history.
- Giovanni Torre
- NIT
Assembly co-chairman Marcus Stewart said the authority would act as an umpire to reflect First Nations lore and culture.
“We need to make sure governments don’t try to impose the colonial way of doing things onto the Treaty process,” he said.
“If government keep taking the same old approach, we’ll get the same old failed outcomes.
“Treaty is about…