Victoria treaty: All schoolchildren to learn ‘truth telling’ under agreement

Aboriginal truth-telling will be embedded into the Victorian school curriculum, with students from prep to year 10 to be taught the “enduring harm” of colonisation, dispossession and injustice as recounted by our First Peoples.

Australia’s first treaty between a state government and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will be introduced to the Victorian Parliament on Tuesday, with a formal apology, a reframing of our school curriculum and greater use of traditional names for natural parks and waterways among the reforms contained in the agreement.

The treaty process will culminate later this year with a formal signing of the historic agreement and a mass celebration of Aboriginal music and culture in central Melbourne, before fresh elections are held to decide the new make-up of