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When Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan introduced the state's treaty bill into parliament, she said it would pave the way for a formal apology, the introduction of Aboriginal truth-telling into the school curriculum, and a better future for Indigenous Australians in the state.
The treaty is the culmination of almost a decade of work that established the First Peoples’ Assembly – which led the negotiations – and delivers on ‘Voice, Treaty and Truth’, making Victoria the first state in the country to do so.
Now, that treaty is in its next phase. This week, we'll have the election results of who will sit on the next First Peoples’ Assembly – and tomorrow, the process of setting up the delegation that will actually decide what the treaty will look like begins.
Today, the co-chairs of the First Peoples’ Assembly, Ngarra Murray and Rueben Berg, on what they hope Victoria’s treaty will deliver – and how its success will be measured.
This is part one of a two-part episode that first aired in September 2025.

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Guest: Co-Chairs of the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria, Ngarra Murray and Rueben Berg.
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Indigenous leaders across the country welcomed Victoria’s treaty.
The legislation enshrines a democratically elected body for First Peoples, called Gellung Warl, that will be consulted on laws and policies affecting Indigenous communities.
Now there are calls for other states and territories to use the Victorian example as a model to establish their own treaties.
But there’s also pushback – with critics calling it costly and divisive in claims that echo The Voice debate – and with state and territory leaders across the country abandoning previous promises and commitments.
Today, writer and 7am co-host Daniel James on whether Victoria’s treaty marks a turning point or an anomaly.
This is part two of a two-part episode that first aired in September 2025.

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Guest: Writer and 7am co-host, Daniel James.
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This week, the Albanese government moved to rein in the NDIS, making a hard political argument that one of the most impactful reforms in recent memory now has to be smaller to survive. In Canberra, a Senate hearing pressed on another pressure point: whether, at a time of global instability and rising costs, Australia should be getting more from its gas exports.
And in the first electoral test for the reshaped right, there may be signs that One Nation’s surge in the polls has reached its limit.
Today, contributing editor at The New Daily, Amy Remeikis, on what this week reveals about Labor, the right and the pressure on both.

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Guest: Contributing editor at The New Daily, Amy Remeikis
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The government says the NDIS has drifted too far from its original purpose, has grown too fast and too loosely, and that it now needs a major reset.
Health Minister Mark Butler says the changes, which will see eligibility tightened, participants reassessed and 160,000 people booted from the NDIS are about making the scheme sustainable and pulling it back to the people it was originally designed to support.
But for people with a disability, families and carers, the language has done little to calm anxiety – because this is just not a crackdown on fraud and dodgy providers. It's a change to who gets support, how that support is judged and what happens to people who no longer meet the new test.
Today, Australian Autism Alliance co-chair Jenny Karavolos on the government's NDIS overhaul and why it's causing so much apprehension across the community.

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Guest: Australian Autism Alliance Co-Chair Jenny Karavolos
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It’s not often politicians are taken to task by regular Australians on the issues that fill them with rage.
But that’s exactly what happened at this week’s senate inquiry into taxing Australia’s gas companies for their windfall war profits.
Konrad Benjamin, a former high school teacher, gave evidence at the hearing – and he didn’t hold back
The self proclaimed “citizen’s lobbyist” is making headlines around the country.
Today in a special bonus episode, founder of Punter’s Politics Konrad Benjamin on why he thinks gas companies are ripping off Australia – and the government is letting them get away with it.

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Guest: Punter’s Politics founder Konrad Benjamin
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