The Australian state of Victoria will create the nation’s first independent authority to oversee First Nations Peoples’ Treaty negotiations, following a historic vote in the state parliament.
The Treaty Authority, which was introduced to Parliament in June by the minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Gabrielle Williams, is an agreement reached between the First Peoples’ Assembly and the Victorian government to establish a Treaty Authority that sits outside the existing state structures and does not answer to the government.
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