First Nations advocates say new education institute in Victoria will boost opportunities for Aboriginal communities

ABC NEWS (Australia)

A democratically elected body of Victorian Aboriginal Traditional Owners - the First Peoples' Assembly - will be given powers to establish its own education facility. It's one of the first practical outcomes to be detailed, following nine months of negotiations over what will become Australia's first formal treaty.

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00:00The ABC can reveal, under Australia's first formal treaty agreement, the Victorian elected

00:09Aboriginal body will be given powers to establish their own educational institute.

00:15The institute will be called the First Nations Institute.

00:19Gunditjmara Elder Uncle Alan Brown has said that the proposed First Nations Institute

00:26will provide new opportunities for Aboriginal communities across Victoria.

00:30Here's a little of what he's had to say.

00:33I think there are opportunities for Aboriginal people in other areas of the educational system,

00:39but this is important because it becomes our own and it shouldn't be feared.

00:43It should be one which is embraced.

00:45So think of the institute not as a university, not as a school, but as a specialised training provider.

00:53It will be built in the decades to come, carefully curated to close the gap.

00:58Now we do know that it is being designed to boost the workforce for Victorian Aboriginal communities.

01:05Now the bill to legislate Victoria's leading treaty agreement is now in the final stages of drafting

01:12and is expected to be in front of Parliament in the coming weeks.

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