Imagine if workers, who’ve no union or industrial rights, tried to negotiate an agreement with a big company?

& 1 worker demands: We must hav an agreement 1st, b4 establishing representation.

This is the same as demanding: Treaty 1st, before a First Nations Voice to Parliament.

It is not that treaty CANNOT come first. It is simply that it is unlikely a small group of First Nations - negotiating with a State Government - will reach meaningful outcomes in a treaty negotiation without constitutional political power at the Commonwealth level.

And one (or even several more) Indigenous Senator’s, loyal to the Crown (by oath), a mostly non-Indigenous political party and electorate - will not change this power dynamic when it comes to treaty negotiations.

It‘s therefore logical that our priority as First Nations ppl

- as sovereign peoples without a Green, Blue or Red obligation -

Is to fight for a collective First Nations Voice that has a constitutional right to be heard by the Commonwealth. #Greens @Greens @AdamBandt #auspol

Especially if you genuinely consider that the NT Treaty Commissioner predicts that a treaty may take 30 - 50 years to achieve; that First Nations in the NT are under a Territory Power (s122); and examples like SA that show that all negotiation progress can be lost at an election.

First Nations need political power NOW. We cannot wait for a treaty that one Government may agree decades away from now, and the next may ignore.

There is so much more than Treaty that First Nations collectively must do.

And ‘power’ is in constitutional rights.