Daniel James

But what we've done by going through that process is showing to the rest of the country that this can be done.

And it can be done in a way that is inclusive and in a way that is looking more to the future now than to the past.

We have, through the truth-telling process here, reckoned with our past.

We have now got our eyes firmly set on the future and that is what treaty is about.

And that is something that can be replicated at the national level if the government chooses to do so.

Yeah, the difference here is that the Treaty Legislation Bill has been introduced into the Parliament.

It will be passed with the Parliament.

The Nationals and Liberals here make up a very small minority in terms of oppositions when it comes to the numbers within the Parliament here.

So it will pass with the support of Greens and other minority groups.

And so then it will have over a year to run before the next election, in which case it has the opportunity to...

enshrine itself in some of the systems here to raise its own awareness through the community.

But over the next 12 months and a bit, it's going to be really hard to put the toothpaste back into the tube once this is out there.

From my understanding, the opposition here says they still oppose the process, but they haven't made a commitment or made any noises about whether they would tear it down if they got into government.

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.