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12/11/2025
Members statements
Chris Couzens (ALP)
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*** DAILY HANSARD PROOF ONLY - DO NOT QUOTE ***
...Chris COUZENS (Geelong) (13:23): The treaty bill has passed the Legislative Council, and what a momentous and emotional moment it ...is to celebrate the passing of the treaty with the First Peoples in Victoria. At last Victoria, thanks ... Treaty is the beginning of guaranteeing a fair and equitable future for the traditional owners of the lands. ... All of those who responded, advocated and negotiated towards achieving treaty should be recognised. To the First Peoples’ ...Assembly, the Premier, the Minister for Treaty and First Peoples and her team, to my parliamentary colleagues for their ...
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30/10/2025
Committee
Lizzie Blandthorn (ALP)
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...Lizzie BLANDTHORN: Further treaties can be negotiated. If they require further laws, then that will be a consideration for the Parliament. ...
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30/10/2025
Committee
Lizzie Blandthorn (ALP)
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... Treaties can be negotiated and legislation remains a matter for the Parliament. ...
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30/10/2025
Committee
Lizzie Blandthorn (ALP)
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... While there are restrictions on the membership of the assembly, these matters reflect outcomes negotiated with the First Peoples’ Assembly, being the representative and deliberative body with authority to negotiate on behalf of First Peoples with the state. The assembly is nevertheless answerable to First Peoples through its democratic nature, as I said. ...
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30/10/2025
Committee
Georgie Crozier (LIB)
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... The bill we are debating today enables the Statewide Treaty. It is ‘Negotiated – pending assent’ – that is what this says. It is a 31-page document that will be enshrined. The treaty – the bill ...
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30/10/2025
Committee
Georgie Crozier (LIB)
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... Minister, can I take you back to UNDRIP not being binding in relation to the preamble of the bill, which explicitly states that future treaties have to be negotiated in accordance with UNDRIP. Can you, Minister, clarify how it is not binding if future treaties will be negotiated in accordance with it? ...
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30/10/2025
Committee
Georgie Crozier (LIB)
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...Georgie CROZIER: In the Treaty Authority annual report that was tabled today, which I have referenced previously, it says: Our mandate is also to ensure we uphold two systems of law – Aboriginal and Western. It ...have been overseeing negotiations between the State and the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria, which on 9 September 2025 resulted in a negotiated Statewide Treaty that will initiate a process to deliver broad, long-term reform. In those negotiations with the ...
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30/10/2025
Committee
Lizzie Blandthorn (ALP)
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...Lizzie BLANDTHORN: This bill is a negotiated outcome of the treaty negotiations. ...
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30/10/2025
Committee
Lizzie Blandthorn (ALP)
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... The bill itself is the negotiated outcome of treaty negotiations, and the independent authority is exactly that. ...
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28/10/2025
Second reading
Sheena Watt (ALP)
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...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 ...
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