Treaty sets the baseline; truth and Treaty will acknowledge our Sovereignty and strengthen our Voice, writes Senator Lidia Thorpe. Via NITV
When the British invaded these lands, we never sat down to negotiate what peaceful coexistence looks like.
Senator Thorpe says The Greens will continue to "keep pushing Labor to go further and faster for Blak justice."Labor’s proposal for a constitutional amendment that was released at the Garma Festival last year is as follows:The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice may make representations to Parliament and the Executive Government on matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
Truth and Treaty are tools to deliver real power to First Nations people in this country. Decision-making power around our own affairs.Truth and Treaty will acknowledge our Sovereignty and strengthen our Voice. We want First Nations people to be acknowledged as the Sovereign people of these lands and we never will cede that Sovereignty.
Given Labor’s push for a constitutionally enshrined advisory body, we tested how committed they are to act on the advice First Nations people give them by demanding the implementation of the remaining recommendations from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and the Bringing them Home report.
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