The Federation welcomed the opportunity to contribute a 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 squarely on Traditional Owners’ rights – the plan is an opportunity to be visionary in realising the collective right to self-determination, end damaging practices that impinge on and undermine rights, centre cultural obligations to Country, and fully recognise Traditional Owner Corporations’ rights and authority by providing for power-sharing partnership, we said (in just six pages, too!).
