For the first time, a treaty formally recognizing the right of indigenous peoples to self-government has been ratified in Australia. This happened in the federal state of Victoria, in the southeast of the continent, where parliament gave the green light to a 34-page text defining new ways of engaging between the institutions and the continent’s indigenous communities.
The agreement, backed by the center-left state government, created a permanent body called the Gellung Warl, an expression that in local language means “spearhead”, with the task of representing…
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