Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk Photo YouTube Palaszczuk: It’s not something I generally promote or practice, but, buried in my distant past, I am, in fact, a lawyer. And buried in Australia’s past are some very troubling matters in law. Especially when it comes to Treaty. I first read the historian Henry Reynolds’ books while studying documents relating to our colonial history in the British Library in London. I was reading court documents I had not read or even heard of at school in Australia. I have never forgotten what I discovered. Deep in these documents were directions from the British Colonial Office to “make Treaties.” Reynolds points out the contradiction of the British treatment of indigenous peoples in Canada, Northern America and New Zealand with what happened in Australia. In those countries, the possession of lands by First Nations peoples was recognised and was negotiated. There were Treaties between the Crown and the peoples of those nations. Some were better than others
