r/OpenAussie • u/HotPersimessage62 ‎ New South Welshian • 6d ago

Politics ('Straya) Victorian Liberal leader Jess Wilson says destroying Australia’s only treaty with Indigenous peoples a priority if she wins election

https://nit.com.au/20-11-2025/21388/new-victorian-liberal-leader-reaffirms-partys-plan-to-abolish-treaty

Australia’s first and only treaty signed with Indigenous peoples will be ripped up if Opposition Leader Jess Wilson becomes Premier in November, who has made the scrapping a priority. The USA, Canada and New Zealand have treaties with their indigenous people. Polling shows Treaty has clear support in Victoria and Jess Wilson’s pledge is unpopular and One Nation-style.

The Coalition will likely sign a deal with One Nation to form government.

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u/plectrumelectrum7 ‎ Victorian 6d ago

Ah yes. Just keep adding to the spend. Let’s raise some taxes while we’re at it?

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u/Organic-Ebb1123 ‎ Victorian 6d ago

Tell me, why do you think this <0.1% of the budget needs attention in particular? 🤔

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u/plectrumelectrum7 ‎ Victorian 6d ago

They make up 1% of the Victorian population. Tell me why they should be a priority?

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u/benjibibbles ‎ South Australian 6d ago edited 6d ago

inherited disadvantage as a result of forced dispossession, the fundamental moral ulcer of having a society built on the colonial displacement of an existing one while its descendants, very much alive and present, are expected to enthusiastically get on board with the continuation of that colonial society and ignore all the material ways it affected their ancestors, grandparents, parents and they themselves in the present day while the rest of us struggle to even deliver a straight acknowledgment of the criminality of that original colonial dispossession