Indigenous Queenslanders in ‘double mourning’ as state’s pathway to treaty loses bipartisan support

‘They’ve reneged [on treaty], just like they reneged on the voice,’ Bindal elder Gracelyn Smallwood said of the Liberal National party. Photograph: Patrick Hamilton/AFP/Getty Images

Indigenous Queenslanders are in “double mourning” after the state’s pathway to treaty lost bipartisan support in the same week that it voted overwhelmingly against the voice, a community leader has said.

The Bindal elder and Indigenous activist Gracelyn Smallwood said the Liberal National party’s decision to abandon support for a treaty was “the biggest disappointment”.