Daniel James

It's Sunday, April 26.

This episode first aired in September 2025.

So the response from sections of the media was entirely predictable, trying to conflate it with things like the referendum, which is a completely different thing.

This is it.

This is what's happening.

And if people want to conflate that with the referendum result for political purposes, then we'll wave to them as we go over the hill and down the road.

This is part two of a two-part episode that we're bringing you, recorded back in September of 2025, just after Victoria introduced a bill that would give effect to Australia's first ever treaty with First Nations people.

Well, it's the only time in the history of the entire country that a treaty has been introduced into a state or federal parliament.

It's been on the back of decades of work, but in a formal sense, in terms of the actual process of getting this treaty to this point, it's been at least six years.

It has survived two elections.

It has gone through a pandemic.

It has gone through a very divisive referendum.

But despite all that, the First People's Assembly in its two iterations have gotten us to this point, and it was a remarkable day for everyone that has either paid close interest to this or been involved in it.

Yeah, it's sadly predictable because it's pretty much all they've really got in their kit in terms of being able to attack processes like this.

They are ostensibly a bunch of one-trick ponies.

When it comes to the idea of the First Nations people here being a minority, yes, we are a minority.

But we are a minority that were here for 60,000 years.

And when colonialism came here,

were a minority that had our land stolen, our waterways desecrated.

We were the result of policies of eradication, both formal and informal.