Government agreement to hold conference on treaty comes as support for constitutional recognition wanes among some Indigenous peopleIndigenous leaders have praised the Victorian government for agreeing to sit down and talk about a treaty,after a assembly of about 500 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Melbourne voted unanimously against the constitutional recognition process.
In the biggest formal rejection of the Recognise campaign since the multimillion dollar process began, attendees at the community assembly, or hosted by the Office of Aboriginal Affairs in February,resolved to reject constitutional recognition and instead demand the state resource a treaty process, including establishing a framework for treaties in collaboration with “all sovereign peoples and nations”, or to be finalised by 1 December.
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Source: theguardian.com