The following Resolution was adopted by Reconciliation Victoria on 6 February 2012:
Reconciliation Victoria:
• Supports the scope and intent of the recommendations made by the Expert Panel
on Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples;
and
• Will work towards community review, understanding and, if necessary,
improvement of the recommendations.
We do so acknowledging that:
• Recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Constitution is
part of the unfinished business of the recommendations made by the Council for
Aboriginal Reconciliation in 2000; and
• Constitutional Recognition is a necessary and positive step forward, but is not an
end to the reconciliation journey: it alone is not sufficient to achieve outcomes
required of a fully reconciled and fair Australia.
Reconciliation Victoria will further consider the following outstanding issues not
explicitly addressed by the Panel's recommendations, which we discussed in our
Submission to the Panel:
• A requirement for 'prior and informed consent' in relation to the proposal to
enable laws to be made for the 'advancement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander peoples';
• Agreements, treaties and the claims of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
people to sovereignty.
Download Reconciliation Victoria's Constitutional Recognition Information Kit
