Commitment to treaty key to ALP retaining inner city at Victorian election, poll suggests

Victoria is the only jurisdiction to have enacted the treaty and truth-telling components of the Uluru Statement from the Heart Photograph: Joel Carrett/EPA

Embracing a more ambitious treaty platform could help Labor retain inner-city seats under threat from the Greens at next month’s Victorian election without costing outer suburban votes, according to a new poll.

The polling comes ahead of a landmark agreement between the Andrews government and the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria on the final elements of the state’s treaty framework, which is expected to be announced before the election campaign begins in earnest on 1 November.