The Federation’s submission to the consultation on the forthcoming National Statement on First Nations in Agriculture.

Our contribution to policy thinking around a potential ban on the sale of fur in Victoria highlights how proposed policy inadvertently sidelines Traditional Owner groups’ rights and interests.

The Federation’s submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission’s Review of the Future Acts Regime.

Planning towns and suburbs is a significant opportunity for Traditional Owner groups to be involved in decision-making for Country, but a substantial risk their rights and interests will be ignored. The Federation contributed a written submission on the first pillar of the 25-year Plan for Victoria framework, which envisages a state that centres self-determination and care for Country in its planning decision-making. Our submission focused on Traditional Owners’ rights – we said the plan is an opportunity to be visionary in realising the collective right to self-determination, end damaging practices that impinge on and undermine collective rights, centre cultural obligations to Country, and fully recognise Traditional Owner Corporations’ rights and authority by providing for power-sharing partnership (in just six pages, too!). Read the submission