Why aboriginal treaty is important in Australia?

People participate in a NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islanders Day Observance Committee) Week march in Melbourne

People participate in a NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islanders Day Observance Committee) Week march in Melbourne Source: AAP Image/JAMES ROSS

A treaty would give Aboriginal people Indigenous sovereignty which they argue never ceded and never being taken away in 1788 with the arrival of European settlers.


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