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Australia’s first Indigenous treaty agreed
Benita Kolovos
Australia’s first agreement with traditional owners was passed by the Victorian parliament to cheers and tears in the public gallery.
After two days of debate in the upper house of parliament this week, the statewide agreement bill was passed by a vote of 21 to 16 just before 9 p.m. After the bill was passed without amendments, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags were unfurled in the public gallery and MPs from the Labor, Greens, Cannabis Legalization and Animal Justice parties, which supported the bill, turned around and applauded.
Under a new legal corporation called Gellung Warl, it establishes the First People’s Assembly as a permanent representative body to advise the government.
Gellung Warl will also include a truth-telling institution known as Nyerna Yoorrook Telkuna and an accountability institution known as Nginma Ngainga Wara. Second, it will enable the government to meet its commitments under the national agreement on closing the gap.
This makes Victoria the first state in the country to embrace voice, agreement and truth – the three pillars of reform called for in the 2017 Uluru statement.
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Coalition MPs are meeting in Canberra today for a critical meeting on net zero policy. Susan Ley is trying to steer MPs and senators to a more centrist position on this issue Andrew Hastie leave the front row. Meanwhile, independent MP Zali Steggall The Climate Change Authority will host a roundtable with its boss and former New South Wales Liberal treasurer Matt Kean. We’ll have more as soon as it happens.
A new study by the Library of Parliament has found that teachers in Australia lose more than $11.5 billion a year in unpaid work. Based on the assumption that teachers work an average of 50 hours per week, the analysis calculates that they are paid for only 38 hours. More details to come.
