Hansard debates

*** DAILY HANSARD PROOF ONLY - DO NOT QUOTE *** ...as a community to speak to the first ever Statewide Treaty. This moment – this history, this legacy ...waiting, we mark the beginning of that new era, the treaty era. The path to treaty has been long.... Our old people have been on the journey to treaty since the beginning of colonisation, having long been ...government embarked on the first community consultations with the Aboriginal Treaty Working Group. In 2018 we strengthened our commitment ...to treaty through the establishment of the Victorian Treaty Advancement Commission and the passing of the Advancing the Treaty Process ...

*** DAILY HANSARD PROOF ONLY - DO NOT QUOTE *** ...I rise to speak proudly in support of the Statewide Treaty Bill 2025. This bill really matters because it puts ... The First Peoples’ Assembly has been clear that treaty is about practical self-determination. It is about communities having ... Treaty is not a slogan; it is the framework that allows real agreements to be negotiated so that ... Treaty is also a pathway to healing. The assembly’s clear message is that truth and justice belong together.... Treaty recognises that harm was done through dispossession and the breaking of lore and culture. By agreeing to ...

*** DAILY HANSARD PROOF ONLY - DO NOT QUOTE *** ...LOVELL (Northern Victoria) (19:47): I rise to speak on the Statewide Treaty Bill 2025, a bill which has been negotiated behind ... This legislation supports a treaty that will create a separate system of government for Victoria’s Indigenous people, create ... Whilst the Liberals and Nationals do not believe treaty is the best way to close the gap and deliver ... So while we have pledged to introduce legislation repealing treaty within the first 100 days of government, we have ...surprised to see the Allan Labor government proceed with this treaty bill following the 2023 federal referendum on the Voice....

*** DAILY HANSARD PROOF ONLY - DO NOT QUOTE *** ...am very, very honoured to speak today on the Statewide Treaty Bill 2025. I want to first acknowledge my colleague ...must feel today translated into a beautiful speech on the treaty bill. I also want to acknowledge First Nations ...respected the nation who had custody of this land and negotiated an agreement to use the land, that then ...broadly all Victorians, to take that journey of truth and treaty. He asked us to listen with open hearts ...not that our predecessors arrived but that there was no treaty, no agreement and no acknowledgement that this land ...

*** DAILY HANSARD PROOF ONLY - DO NOT QUOTE *** ...McARTHUR (Western Victoria) (20:58): I rise to speak on the Statewide Treaty Bill 2025, and at the outset I would like ...Despite that, this Labor government has now introduced the Statewide Treaty Bill 2025. I have heard the claim that their ...people voting in 2018 and 2022 had the first idea of what treaty meant. It is still impossible to know now,...Every bill introduced to Parliament must include a statement of treaty compatibility, compelling MPs to adopt the government’s ideological ...small fraction of Indigenous Victorians voted for the assembly that negotiated it. It is certainly no mandate for entirely ...

*** DAILY HANSARD PROOF ONLY - DO NOT QUOTE *** ...resilience it has taken to advocate for and negotiate this treaty. I want to acknowledge all of the Aboriginal ...who have been engaged in the work to further the treaty process in Victoria. I thank and commend each ...Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, she first heard the calls for treaty as she travelled around Victoria listening to the voices ...on them, and she brought a proposal for discussion on treaty to the government. With the government’s blessing, ...in 2016 Minister Hutchins set up the Aboriginal Treaty Working Group. Consultations were held across Victoria and guidance sought on ...

*** DAILY HANSARD PROOF ONLY - DO NOT QUOTE *** ... Parties who negotiated contracts under the old regime may find themselves noncompliant and needing to renegotiate terms. That does seem to be patently unfair. It may well have been better if this had been written in such a way that this was a prospective approach. There is a question of flexibility for principals. As I said, there is a requirement to give five business days notice before calling on retention money, and this ... We have seen Indigenous workers – we have just seen the Statewide Treaty Bill 2025 pass through its second reading vote – but we know that on some of these work sites, if you are not in the right group that the CFMEU has ticked off, you are in the wrong group. An Indigenous group that is not ticked off by the powers, the motorcycle gangs on the sites, will be drummed out. That is ...

...make this statement of compatibility with respect to the Statewide Treaty Bill 2025 (the Bill). In my opinion,...Bill are: •#x9;to give effect to the first Statewide Treaty; and •#x9;to provide foundations for ongoing ...Statewide Treaty-making between Gellung Warl and the State, including to negotiate further functions and powers of Gellung Warl over ...driven by First Peoples, via consultations conducted by an Aboriginal Treaty Working Group and the Treaty Advancement Commissioner in 2016–2018.... That work led to Australia’s first Treaty legislation – the Advancing the Treaty Process with Aboriginal Victorians Act 2018 – ...

...on Earth – a fact that we uphold with pride through Treaty. I also want to acknowledge and pay respects ...of Victoria has partnered with us on our journey towards Treaty. I want to thank the First People’s Assembly ...shown in undertaking this journey with us towards the first Treaty in Australia’s history. I also want to acknowledge ...the Treaty Authority and its members for their role in ensuring a fair negotiations process and supporting the Parties to ... Treaty is in your name, too, and it benefits us all. At its heart is a ...

...Labor government is committed to true reconciliation, to truth-telling, to treaty with its First Peoples. We know that families ... Self-determination and treaty will put this into action. Treaty makes sense because it gives Aboriginal people a say ... Our first treaty sets clear rules to achieve change over time. This does not take anything away from ...commitments made by the state of Victoria in Australia’s first negotiated treaty with First Peoples. As I said at ... Treaty, however, will give us a pathway to change what is not working, to finally give ...