Daniel James

Reading the situation here would be something that would be seen as incredibly pointless and reckless to do, given that there's been such a process in place for such a long time.

And it's not a platform that you want to run on here in Victoria.

If you want to run on a platform of we've got a teardown treaty,

it's not going to get you too many votes.

We've got far bigger issues in terms of the political landscape here around, you know, crime and cost of living and things like that, where there are far more votes to be mined as an opposition than something like treaty.

Probably the most meaningful change in terms of the broader community will be through things like changes to the Victorian school curriculum.

We have a report now, Truth Be Told, through the York Justice Commission, which is now part of the official public record.

which will be used as a resource now to redevelop the curriculum to tell the true history of this place.

There's going to be an ongoing truth-telling process established, which means that we are able to recognise patterns and speak truth to power on a regular basis about what actually is happening here and how the colonial project is still having detrimental impacts on First Nations people.

There will be the establishment of oversight institutions.

The treaty allows First Nations people for the first time, as equals with the Crown, to negotiate, have input and talk to laws and policies that will impact First Nations people.

So we're not retrofitting systems or policies or ideas.

We are there at the actual point that some of these systems and policies are either reformed or created.

There will be renaming conventions across the state.

Any sort of public building or piece of land that is owned by the state could be renamed after a process with First Nations people to...

Just get the flavour and language of First Nations people back into this land after it's been missing for so long.

And there will be frameworks to negotiate further treaties.

I think the thing that people need to realise is that the treaty itself is a living, breathing document.

It's not something that is etched in stone.

It is a process that will continue to evolve as a society and community evolve.