Hansard debates

*** DAILY HANSARD PROOF ONLY - DO NOT QUOTE *** ...Natalie HUTCHINS (Sydenham – Minister for Government Services, Minister for Treaty and First Peoples, Minister for Prevention of Family Violence,... Our state has negotiated a treaty with First Peoples – a treaty for all Victorians. We needed to ... As a productivity commissioner said, that is treaty. Treaty is how our kids can have the same opportunities and Aboriginal ... Treaty is how we close the gap. Treaty is how we work in genuine partnership with First Peoples.... Treaty is how we get better outcomes. When we listen to Aboriginal communities, we get kinder and ...

*** DAILY HANSARD PROOF ONLY - DO NOT QUOTE *** ...rise to update the house on how Victoria’s first Statewide Treaty will support Victoria, the Education State. We ... Why are we doing treaty? Because it is the key to a better understanding for all of us,...we are the only postcolonial Commonwealth nation that has not negotiated any formal treaty with its indigenous people. I ...be with the Premier and all ministers here today doing treaty, because we know and we should be proud ...

*** DAILY HANSARD PROOF ONLY - DO NOT QUOTE *** ...table a statement of compatibility in relation to the Statewide Treaty Bill 2025: In accordance with the Charter of Human ...make this statement of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....

*** DAILY HANSARD PROOF ONLY - DO NOT QUOTE *** ...on earth – a fact that we uphold with pride through treaty.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 Peoples’ 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 ...

...David ETTERSHANK (Western Metropolitan) (10:05): Last week I had the honour of attending the ceremonial opening of treaty negotiations at Darebin Parklands on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung country. Organised by the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria with the Victorian government, ... Treaties negotiated in good faith with goodwill with our traditional owners will form the bedrock of that change. This is not about taking from one group to give to another, whatever the culture war warriors would have ... I applaud the Victorian government for its work on truth-telling and the treaty process and for showing genuine courage and leadership at a time when too many governments across the country are not. ...

... But to start with the highs, there have been many over the last seven years – passing the first treaty legislation, voluntary assisted dying, firefighters presumptive compensation, donations reform, pill testing, the container deposit scheme, rental reforms, the windfall gains tax, all the parliamentary inquiries. Those were bills that I got to be part of and a part of the process, and it was a real privilege to be part ... More homes are available for sale or rent because of the changes we negotiated to the empty homes tax and short stay reform. Native forest logging has now mostly, although not completely, ended, and that corrupt entity VicForests is no more. But we have not won all the fights yet. I am also proud of when we have been unrelenting in our advocacy and refused to back down despite being hounded on all ...

...be at the Melbourne Museum for the launch of the treaty database. That was an incredibly moving experience for ...me to see the first step on the pathway to treaty – to have the Treaty Authority get up and ...traditional owner groups, the First Peoples’ Assembly, to enter into treaty negotiations’ and to have the First Peoples’ Assembly get ... We are ready to negotiate treaty and to present a kangaroo skin to the Treaty Authority as a symbol ...“We are here and we are ready to start negotiating treaty.”’ It is something that so many people have ...

... I acknowledge that this land was never ceded, and in this parliamentary term in particular, where we will see real treaties negotiated between traditional owners and the state, I pay my deepest respect to elders past, present and emerging and so look forward to that important progress. This week is National Reconciliation Week, an opportunity to focus on how we can strengthen relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. Indigenous voices must be elevated and ... Legalise Cannabis Victoria will be supporting a Voice to Parliament, and we look forward to working with our respective communities as we progress through Australia’s next steps of reconciliation, including treaty and truth-telling. ...

... It is neatly summarised as truth, treaty and voice. Those leaders sought, in particular in relation to ...the federal government, that there be a truth-telling commission, that treaty be negotiated with First Nations peoples and that we ...a moment a little bit about the importance of truth, treaty and voice and the way in which it is ...Peoples’ Assembly and we are in the process of negotiating treaty. In every respect we are nation leading on ... This bill, in terms of its relationship with treaty, acknowledges that process and our shared aspiration to achieve ...

...I very much want to commend the journey that Australia has gone on over the last few years and very much commend the work of this government in coming to treaty. I think we have got some way to go, but we have started that journey. In delivering that journey, ultimately there are a whole lot ... I very much look forward to either a treaty or treaties being negotiated through Victoria and, I hope, through the Commonwealth that build a more important and profound partnership and a way forward that recognises the injustice and recognises what European settlement has done to such a proud and important culture. This bill is an important ...