00:02Among these rocks from the banks of the Yarra, Victoria made history when a treaty was signed last year.
00:07The amount of work that has actually gone into making this happen is astronomical.
00:14Victoria is the first Australian jurisdiction to sign a treaty with its First Nations.
00:18With it came Gullung Woll, an elected body for Aboriginal Victorians that speaks directly to government.
00:23The self-determination with Indigenous communities is an integral part of what it is that allows us to flourish.
00:30But that will be scrapped should Jess Wilson's coalition win the election.
00:33We're doing so to ensure that we see a billion dollars in savings over the next decade
00:39and that we can ensure that we are putting money into programs and outcomes that are going to deliver for
00:45Aboriginal Victorians.
00:46That would be absolutely detrimental to our community.
00:49The coalition says it will set up a new body within the public service for Indigenous programs.
00:55First Peoples see this as a return to a failed practice.
00:58It would send us back 200 years.
01:01Aunty Jill Gallagher was the first Treaty Advancement Commissioner and helped thrash out the process over a decade.
01:06Those advisory committees haven't worked.
01:09I would say to Jess, if you do tear up the treaty, you'll be the first government in the world
01:16to ever do that.
01:16That's not leadership. That's picking on the minority.
01:20The fight for treaty is focused on the seat of Kew held by Jess Wilson.
01:24It's also an area that voted yes in the voice to parliament referendum, a position Jess Wilson backed.
01:29While she's odds on to hold the seat, she is up against a well-resourced independent who's also advocating for
01:36treaty.
01:37Advocates are taking the campaign direct to Kew residents.
01:40Have you heard much about the treaty process in Victoria?
01:43Aboriginal Victorians say they've become a political football.
01:46Like our health outcomes, our education outcomes, the justice system outcomes, like all of these things that we're working towards
01:54will be rolled back.
01:56Taneen Onis-Brown worked on treaty for 10 years.
01:59People will lose their lives because if we're not in the driver's seat then our people continue to die.
02:05Another issue in a crowded campaign.
02:07Taneen Onis-Brown
02:09Taneen Onis-Brown
02:12Taneen Onis-Brown
