‘We’re the experts in our own lives’: Victoria’s First Nations treaty body is holding its first elections

Gellung Warl candidates, Lidia Thorpe’s son among them, are hoping to bring their lived experience to ‘a new era’ of politics in the state Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast After more than two decades in the construction industry, Andrew Thorpe has decided to down tools and take a shot at politics. But it is not the traditional political system that has governed Australia since 1901. Thorpe is running for a seat in a “new era” of the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria, after Australia’s first and only treaty was signed between a state government and traditional owners in November. Continue reading...

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