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Indigenous leaders at odds on benefits of Treaty

by Emma Ballingall
Local Indigenous leaders hold different views of how Australia's first Treaty will impact West Gippsland.

After it was tabled in State Parliament earlier this month, Gunaikurnai elected representative Troy McDonald described it a well-thought out political Treaty which had been in the works since 2015.
"It's nothing like the Voice, it doesn't replicate that," Mr McDonald said. "This is a political Treaty, not a back aisle process to set up a government agency."


However, local elder Aunty Cheryl Drayton openly criticised the Treaty

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