Shadow treasurer David Davis tells Sky News host Peta Credlin ‘nothing’s ever independent, it’s always stacked’
, after an agreement was struck with the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria – the body elected by the state’s Indigenous people to help develop a treaty framework.
The opposition leader, Matthew Guy, on Wednesday stood by Davis’s comments, while maintaining the Coalition was yet to form a position on the bill. Guy said issues of disadvantage and prejudice needed to be addressed but questioned whether there was a need for a treaty authority.“There’s just this run to an authority for everything when the government can do this work itself or indeed the parliament can do this work itself.”previously told Guardian Australia“Treaty is deeply personal, meaning that the road to achieving treaty will be different things to all people,” Walsh said in May.
The minister for Aboriginal affairs, Gabrielle Williams, said the opposition’s position on treaty, which had changed several times, had again been made unclear by Davis’s comments.
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