(Adopted August 2024)
Principles
The Queensland Greens believe that:
The principles outlined in the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP) are the appropriate basis for our First Nations Peoples Policy and our actions in support of First Nations Peoples. The key sections of the UNDRIP are:
1. Free, prior and informed consent
2. Foundational Rights
3. Self-Governance and Rights to Representation
4. Language cultural and spiritual identity
5. Rights to Country, resources, and our knowledge
6. Protection of Country
7. Participation, development, and economic and social rights
8. Life & Security
9. Education, information and employment and;
10. Non-discrimination and equality.
To achieve these fundamental and international Rights we will ensure that Queensland’s obligations under the UNDRIP are written into state policy.
Aims
The Queensland Greens adopt Three Core Priorities in this order:
1. Truth
Establish a Truth & Justice Commission for Queensland.
2. Treaty
Enact a Treaty and/or Treaties with First Nations peoples in this state, sovereign to sovereign.
3. Voice
Subject to Treaty negotiations, establish a First Nations Voice to Parliament to be included in the governance of Queensland, as determined by First Nations peoples.
The Queensland Greens will:
1. Work in Unity with all First Nations peoples in healing our shared history.
2. Respect, recognise, learn from and seek consent for First Nations peoples spiritual, cultural, social and physical relationship with the land, waters and environment, and their rights and obligations as custodian and protectors.
3. Ensure Queensland complies with the UNDRIP and all other international instruments that recognise the rights of First Nations peoples.
4. Make reparations to the Stolen Generations, informed by the Stolen Generations.
5. Recognise the Frontier Wars as part of Australian and Queensland history and make reparations to those affected by the Frontier Wars.
6. Hold the Queensland governments to account for implementing the Closing the Gap targets.
7. Review the Native Title (Queensland) Act to make it consistent with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
8. Ensure First Nations peoples have equal rights and access to essential services including health, education, training, housing, community infrastructure, employment support, and culturally specific and culturally safe justice systems.
9. Promote urgent attention to:
9.1 Incarceration and deaths in custody, kids in custody and justice reinvestment
9.2 Suicide Prevention
9.3 Child Protection and removals
9.4 Homelessness and housing
9.5 Health equity
9.6 Protection from and recovery from Violence and Trauma
9.7 Cultural Heritage Protection
9.8 Language Translation Services
9.9 Care for Country
9.10 Climate crisis impacts on First Nations people