Shadow Indigenous affairs minister refuses to state if Victorian Coalition will repeal Jacinta Allan’s controversial Treaty legislation in fiery on

Victoria’s shadow Indigenous affairs minister Melina Bath has refused to state whether the Coalition would repeal Premier Jacinta Allan’s controversial Treaty agreement if elected to government during a fiery on-air grilling from a Sky News host.

The long-awaited Treaty agreement between the Victorian government and the state’s Indigenous community was revealed by Ms Allan on Tuesday, with the government introducing legislation to pass the new statutory body in the lower house on the same day.

Ms Allan announced the details of the Treaty with the First Peoples’ Assembly co-Chairs through a joint statement, describing it as a “major milestone in Victoria’s decade-long Treaty process”.

The central pillar of the proposed Treaty is the creation of a new Indigenous representative body, to be