Daniel James

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.

There's a whole truckload of things, Ruby, that will be part of this process over future generations that will not only enrich the lives of First Nations people, it will enrich the lives of the broader community.

I think an important thing to also note about the Treaty too is that there's no commercial incompetence here.

What you see in the treaty is laid out for everyone to see.

It is something that has been negotiated between the First Peoples Assembly and the Victorian government.

And the treaty now is the document where everyone can see that there are no hidden clauses, no hidden agendas.

People aren't coming after people's homes or real estate or businesses.

It is all laid out in black and white, dare I say, in the treaty document itself.