Treaty
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A first for the nation
Local First Nations groups across the region have welcomed the historic state-wide Treaty tabled in state parliament last Tuesday. It makes Victoria the first state or territory in Australia to introduce a bill of this kind in parliament and, if passed, will set in stone a permanent First Peoples’ Assembly under the name Gellung Warl,…
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Ngannelong speculation
Significant Treaty legislation introduced into the Victorian Parliament last week has re-ignited speculation in certain quarters about possible changes to the names of specific landmarks and waterways on state-controlled land. Could it be that the widely known phrase ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ eventually changes to ‘Picnic at Ngannelong’? Under the legislation introduced last week by…