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Amplifying Traditional Owner voices in the media, raising Traditional Owner concerns through advocacy and celebrating Traditional Owner vision through policy is at the core of our work.

We do this through publications, media and engagement.

Discussion Papers

The development of the Federation’s treaty Discussion Papers was funded by the Department of Premier and Cabinet (DPC) to support Aboriginal Victorians with the transition to treaty.

The Federation released six papers, developed to align with the insights and questions posed during Traditional Owner treaty engagement meetings.

The discussion papers successfully stimulate ideas, discussion and debate about treaty and agreement making in Victoria.

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Annual Reports

The Federation publishes its financial statements detailing the group’s financial performance and that of its subsidiary companies.

The accounts are prepared in accordance with Australian Accounting standards, and as a registered charity, the Federation is subject to regulation by the Australian Charities and Not for Profits Commission.

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Media Statements

Clean energy strategy investment respects Traditional Owners as partners and rights-holders (6 December 2024)

Traditional Owner groups welcome recommended reforms for economic self-determination (27 November 2024)

Law reform to power Indigenous economic development a welcome step towards self-determination (26 November 2024)

Traditional Owner groups welcome Treaty negotiations (21 November 2024)

Traditional Owners must be at the heart of managing culturally significant native species (25 September 2024)

Victorian Government must protect and respect native dingoes, say Traditional Owner groups (7 September 2024)

Federation celebrates Wamba Wemba Aboriginal Corporation’s formal recognition (13 August 2024)

Victorian Opposition must end racist blame and get the facts straight on cultural heritage (29 July 2024)

Victorian Traditional Owner groups ready for cultural management of Country through increased IPAs (12 July 2024)

Aboriginal dispossession must wind up with VicForests (30 June 2024)

Traditional Owner groups welcome dedicated education funding as a step towards self-determination (31 May 2024)

Stolen water wealth must be returned to Traditional Owners through Murray-Darling Basin buybacks (20 May 2024)

Governments must restore and respect Traditional Owners’ authority for Budget pledges to be meaningful (15 May 2024)

Historic Bakaru Wayaparrangu agreement will redress past injustice and enable Traditional Owners’ prosperity (14 May 2024)

Victorian Government ministers must follow Yoorrook Justice Commission testimony with action (2 May 2024)

Victorian Government doesn’t fully understand self-determination, Yoorrook Justice Commission hears (17 April 2024)

Victorian Government must commit to Aboriginal-owned water title for Murray-Darling Basin (12 April 2024)

Declaration of the Southern Ocean offshore wind area does not respect Traditional Owner rights and responsibilities for Sea Country (18 March 2024)

Aboriginal Culture and Healing Flood Recovery Grant Program (6 March 2024)

Governments must commit to the work of Closing the Gap (7 February 2024)

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Strategic Plans

The Federation is the Victorian state-wide body that convenes and advocates for the rights and interests of Traditional Owners while progressing wider social, economic, environmental and cultural objectives.

We support the progress of agreement-making and participation in decision-making to enhance the authority of Traditional Owner Corporations on behalf of their communities. Together, our joint purpose is to facilitate and amplify a strong voice for Traditional Owners and progress our shared interests.

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The words are right, but the policys lacking.

Heres what we think of the Australian Governments response to the parliamentary inquiry into economic self-determination and opportunity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

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Cultural fire, media statements, free legal workshop-planning – here’s what our team’s up to this week.

🔴 Lisa, Kurt and Gabby are sending the freshly drafted cultural fire legislative barriers policy papers out for Traditional Owners’ review.

🔴 Sophie’s preparing letters and media releases for when parliament resumes next week (in short: we’re not happy with the Victorian Government!), and planning a conference presentation with Emergency Management Victoria on the grant program we delivered together.

🔴 Gabby’s progressing our proposal for an independent fund for Traditional Owner Corporations’ ongoing Nation-building work.

🔴 Lisa’s preparing a milestone report for our Cultural Fire Leadership Group secretariat role, and closing off actions from the last CEO Forum, before turning to the agenda for the next one!

🔴 Dan’s prepared a submission to the federal critical minerals social license inquiry, and a funding proposal to the Victorian Government to deliver support for growing Traditional Owner Corporations’ business and investment initiatives.

🔴 Stephs attending a consultation session for the Commonwealth Water Act review run by the federal environment department, and preparing feedback on draft materials from the Victorian environment department’s water and catchments team, as they prepare to engage Traditional Owners on the Inland Waters Target work under Closing the Gap.

🔴 She’s also sent out a survey of preferred dates for the Environmental Justice Australia workshop proposed for the last week of August – if you haven’t completed that and need the link re-sent, send us a message!

🔴 And Ben’s outlining the next year’s budget for our finance and risk management committee, progressing our audit, and circling around some ideas on economic policy.

Cultural fire, media statements, free legal workshop-planning – here’s what our team’s up to this week.

🔴 Lisa, Kurt and Gabby are sending the freshly drafted cultural fire legislative barriers policy papers out for Traditional Owners’ review.

🔴 Sophie’s preparing letters and media releases for when parliament resumes next week (in short: we’re not happy with the Victorian Government!), and planning a conference presentation with Emergency Management Victoria on the grant program we delivered together.

🔴 Gabby’s progressing our proposal for an independent fund for Traditional Owner Corporations’ ongoing Nation-building work.

🔴 Lisa’s preparing a milestone report for our Cultural Fire Leadership Group secretariat role, and closing off actions from the last CEO Forum, before turning to the agenda for the next one!

🔴 Dan’s prepared a submission to the federal critical minerals social license inquiry, and a funding proposal to the Victorian Government to deliver support for growing Traditional Owner Corporations’ business and investment initiatives.

🔴 Steph's attending a consultation session for the Commonwealth Water Act review run by the federal environment department, and preparing feedback on draft materials from the Victorian environment department’s water and catchments team, as they prepare to engage Traditional Owners on the Inland Waters Target work under Closing the Gap.

🔴 She’s also sent out a survey of preferred dates for the Environmental Justice Australia workshop proposed for the last week of August – if you haven’t completed that and need the link re-sent, send us a message!

🔴 And Ben’s outlining the next year’s budget for our finance and risk management committee, progressing our audit, and circling around some ideas on economic policy.
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If Traditional Owners in Victoria waited for national legislation to make things right, thered be trouble.

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