Victoria’s opposition backflips on opposing state-based treaty negotiations with traditional owners

Victoria is currently the only jurisdiction in Australia that is moving on both the treaty and truth-telling components of the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Photograph: Diego Fedele/AAP

Victoria’s Coalition has reversed its opposition to state-based treaty negotiations with Indigenous peoples, saying it is prepared to work with traditional owners to “advance the treaty process”.

Before the 2018 state election, the opposition leader, Matthew Guy, argued treaty negotiations should occur at a national level and said a state-based approach was bound to fail.