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Where Australian parties stand on first nations & treaty

14 parties on record · party platforms in their own words

Each position below is sourced exclusively from the party's own published materials — never from media coverage. Click a party for its full platform, donors and members. Individual members' own stated positions are on their record pages.

Australian Labor Party party platform

The platform commits Labor to listening to the Uluru Statement from the Heart and acting on it, including through a Voice to Parliament enshrined in the Constitution, and to working with First Nations people to achieve recognition and justice; Labor also publishes a Reconciliation Action Plan.

Liberal Party party platform

The party's published material states a Coalition government would conduct a full audit of spending on Indigenous programs, reintroduce the Cashless Debit Card for working-age welfare recipients in consultation with communities where drugs and alcohol are prevalent, and hold a Royal Commission into Sexual Abuse in Indigenous Communities.

Australian Greens party platform

The platform commits to a National Truth and Justice Commission, funded at $250 million, to document historic and ongoing injustices against First Nations peoples, and calls for an independent, fully funded and empowered body to negotiate a national Treaty or treaties "Sovereign to Sovereign," consistent with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party party platform

The party opposed the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament and states the Constitution should make no distinctions between citizens based on race. Its policy would accept no new native title or cultural heritage claims while reviewing all existing ones, insert a sunset clause into the Native Title Act, abolish the National Indigenous Australians Agency, comprehensively audit Indigenous grant spending, and end taxpayer funding for welcome to country ceremonies.

Victorian Socialists party platform

The platform calls for pursuing Treaties with First Nations people to secure justice, sovereignty and land rights, states that a socialist society should not unilaterally impose its laws over Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and commits to recognising Aboriginal land rights and the right to self-determination.

The Nationals party platform

Victorian Nationals policy (state division) supports expanding the use of Indigenous fire management knowledge in public land management through the "Return of the Fire Stick" policy, stating Indigenous cool burns can play an important role in protecting landscapes and communities from bushfire.

Animal Justice Party party platform

The party endorses the First Nations Voice to Parliament and constitutional recognition, endorses efforts to rectify long-standing injustices including fast-tracking a Path to Treaty, and recognises that First Nations people were caretakers of the continent for tens of thousands of years and that sovereignty was never ceded.

Family First Party party platform

Family First states it supports constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians but opposed the referendum to establish an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament, describing it as a substantial change to how the country is governed rather than a modest advisory body.

Libertarian Party party platform

Its WA state platform proposes reducing the regulatory burden tied to Indigenous-related requirements, which it says impose heavy costs on state infrastructure projects and on state and local government operations.

Legalise Cannabis Party party platform

The party states that cannabis prohibition leads to disproportionate incarceration of Indigenous Australians, citing that one-third of adults in Australian jails are Aboriginal with higher proportions in youth detention, and calls for cannabis legalisation to break this cycle of criminalisation.

Katter's Australian Party party platform

The platform's First Australians Policies address Alcohol Management Plans, reform of the "Blue Card" system to help more Indigenous Queenslanders into jobs, and the introduction of title deeds for First Australians so community members can gain ownership of their homes, businesses and farms, with such deeds proposed to be inalienable so they cannot be sold outside the community.

Centre Alliance party platform

Supports constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, ongoing "Closing the Gap" funding, community consultation on tailored programs, and doubling the number of Indigenous Rangers and funding for Indigenous Protected Areas.

Australian Christians party platform

The party states it will work alongside First Nations communities and local leaders to improve outcomes for Aboriginal children using culturally-appropriate methods and to reduce Indigenous suicide rates; it supports individualised sentencing for young people accounting for complex childhood trauma, urges caution on constitutional recognition, and warned the Voice to Parliament risked creating a de facto third chamber and entrenching racial division.

United Australia Party party platform

The party opposed the Voice to Parliament referendum, stating it would not support a constitutional change that "divides us by race" and that all Australians are equal and deserve an equal voice.

Recorded divisions on first nations & treaty · 16

Every recorded vote on a bill filed under this issue, in each parliament the site holds a division record for — second and third readings, plus any amendment listed with a reason. How each member voted is on their record.

Votes are shown as the official record lists them — Hansard federally and in New South Wales; Votes and Proceedings, Minutes of the Proceedings and Hansard in Victoria; the Record of Proceedings in Queensland; the Votes and Proceedings and Minutes of Proceedings in Western Australia; the Votes and Proceedings (House of Assembly) and Hansard (Legislative Council) in South Australia; the Votes and Proceedings of both chambers in Tasmania. "Did not vote" means the member held the seat that day and is on neither list — the record says who was in the chamber, not why, so it is never an abstention. Western Australia’s record prints no pairs, so a member paired there shows as did not vote. Nothing is shown for a presiding officer who by law gives only a casting vote (the Speaker and the President in South Australia, the President in Tasmania), nor for the member presiding at a Tasmanian division, which Tasmania’s journals record. Which bills sit under which issue is an editorial choice, made bill by bill with a reason read from the second-reading speech. A bill decided by an earlier parliament (Queensland’s 2018 abortion law reform, for one) is shown with that parliament named, read from the official record of the day. For Queensland and the federal parliament “did not vote” there means the member held a seat that day, as their service is recorded; for the other earlier parliaments the record of who held a seat could not be read, so only the printed Aye, No and paired votes are shown.