Victoria on cusp of being first Australian state with a treaty

Australia is the only developed Commonwealth country without a treaty with its First Nations peoples – but there is one state on the cusp of changing that .

When the treaty is legislated, Victoria will become the first state in the country with such an agreement. But what does that mean?

Speaking to host Samantha Selinger-Morris on The Morning Edition podcast , Gunditjmara elder Aunty Jill Gallagher AO, who is chief executive of the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, says recognition alone, after being denied for more than 200 years, is “so important” for Indigenous Australians. She explains what treaty is and what Victoria’s historic one will entail – and what it doesn’t.

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