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TREATY, YEAH!
VICTORIA is another step closer to forming a Treaty with the state’s First Nations people with a historic Bill set to pass the upper house of parliament. First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria South East representative and Kurnai man Peter Hood was in parliament last week watching assembly co-chairs make an address on the Treaty Authority Bill. The Bill, once passed, will facilitate an agreement signed earlier this month
between the government and the First Peoples’ Assembly to establish an independent Treaty umpire. The Treaty Authority will sit outside the usual government bureaucracy and be led entirely by First Nations people. An independent panel will appoint five members to the authority. The Bill passed the lower house and is set to go through the upper house with by-partisan support when parliament resumes in August after the winter break.
Bangerang and Wiradjuri Elder Geraldine Atkinson and Nira illim bulluk man of the Taungurung Nation Marcus Stewart addressed the lower house in both English and Aboriginal languages. Mr Hood said it was a “good feeling” to walk into parliament and watch the co-chairs donned in possum skin cloaks make their speeches. “I started thinking about my parents and grandparents who came off the Lake Tyers Mission and then moved to
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Newborough. Here is their grandson sitting in parliament for this momentous occasion, it gave me thought on how far we’ve come. I felt lucky and privileged to represent my mob,” the Moe man told The Express. Mr Hood was elected as a regional representative into the assembly in 2019 to work with the state government to create the processes and rules for treaty negotiations. Continued on page 3
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