Will a treaty change the way we do government in this country? Is it something we should be scared of? What does a treaty deliver?
There are currently about 800 regional agreements with indigenous people across this country. They are, in effect, localised treaties. Do we need a universal agreement as well?
As one of the panellists Anthropologist Peter Sutton, arguing against the motion warns ‘be careful what you wish for’. His argument is that a universal agreement would reinforce the notion of race as a legal status in our country’s legal system.