Ruben Burke
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And so that's what we're creating through Nyingma Nyenyawara.
Another component of the galangwal will be the ongoing truth-telling through Nyonya Yuruk Talcuna.
And so that will ensure that the powerful work that happened through the truth-telling process here in Victoria, through Yuruk, will be able to be continued.
And there's an ongoing role for place-based truth-telling and to ensure that all Victorians can better understand the history of First Peoples from a First Peoples perspective.
So really at this stage, it's about a process and the types of things we want to advocate for is that's the next conversation to talk with our community.
It's not just going to be whoever the coaches are deciding that this is what they want to talk about.
There are really strong processes in the legislation and in our own internal processes to make sure we're hearing directly from all parts of the state about what's important and feeding that in.
And we do have the powerful work of your book of four years of our people coming and giving evidence and
to show what also needs to change.
So that'll be a really key roadmap of the type of things we're going to be advocating for and the future body can advocate for when we do have that greater access to government.
Look, I've heard far too much about the concept of parliamentary sovereignty in the last couple of years.
But we're very mindful that parliament has its role to do.
And that's rightfully so, given that they're chosen by all the people of the state.
So we just want to make sure that when there is a role for government to have decisions that impact First Peoples, that they're actually hearing from First Peoples about that.
We want to make sure we have really strong relationships.
As Nagara said before, that's really key to these processes of being able to sit down and look in the eye of these politicians and say, this is what our people need and this is what our people are saying and this is what our experts are saying.
And hopefully that sees the change.
But if not, we can keep coming back to the table and having those conversations and understand if that's not the approach they think will work, what will and how can we make that work even better.