00:00Making the walk to the top of Puriakitina, Riston Cove, an eagle soars overhead for the start of NAIDOC week 2025.
00:10This year's theme, the next generation, elevating the voices of youth.
00:15Our culture has survived so much colonisation, displacement, loss of language and deep pain, but we're still here and that's very powerful.
00:23And the centuries-long struggle for treaty continues.
00:26Three years after former Premier Peter Gutwin promised a treaty, the Tasmanian Government announced in May it would no longer be pursuing it.
00:34We were promised a pathway to treaty. We stood in Parliament and applauded that announcement.
00:41We were then left with an out-of-the-blue decision to scrap the whole treaty process and replace it with truth-telling.
00:50The Liberal Government's truth-telling and healing process is yet to start, and the issues haven't been raised by either major party during the election campaign.
00:58Just last week, Victoria's Yurok Truth-Telling Commission handed down its first report after four years of work, finding Aboriginal people in Victoria have endured crimes against humanity and genocide.
01:10We need to be following what Victoria and other states have done, having a truth-telling and healing and treaty process that needs to start this year.
01:18Labor is open to revisiting treaty if it wins government.
01:22We understand that there needs to be truth-telling, we understand that there needs to be a pathway towards treaty, but you need to bring Tasmanians along on the journey with that.
01:31Our focus quite clearly right now needs to be closing the GAP initiatives, supporting Aboriginal people when it comes to truth-telling and healing.
01:41No matter who wins government, the impacts of past decisions will remain.
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