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Levi Power

Levi Power

Yorta Yorta man from Shepparton, member of First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria representing the North East region; youth voice representative leading Victoria's historic Treaty process

Jul 23, 2026

9:27
What are some of the, I suppose, the tangible outcomes that young people should be looking for in this organisation?
9:37
Firstly, I think back to last iteration where we established a formal youth voice conveners with Geordie Edwards and Alice Pepper who put their hand up and led a lot of the work last term to get us to where we are now.
9:48
That was spending a lot of time speaking with young people across the state, getting their thoughts, ideas, aspirations.
9:54
We took that and what we heard loud and clear is that, and we all know this and Tani touched on it, this is about doing things our way and what we know works best for our communities.
10:03
And a big part of that is having elders help guide us and having young people part of decisions that affect their futures.
10:11
Tanya and I, you know, the next iteration came around, we put our hands up for that election, and I think I speak for both of us, so grateful that the other members put their faith in us to lead this work for the next four years.
10:20
And what that means now is we'll continue that work.
13:12
I think that is our hope and to have that formal recognition of that their knowledge and experience matters, just like our old people, but for the young people too.
19:19
Can you tell us more?
19:20
Yeah, so once we were approaching signing of the treaty, we knew roughly what it was that we needed to establish into Galangwal.
19:28
So we wanted to set up Galangwal for success as quickly, make sure they hit the ground running and give them as much guidance, similar to the statement of intention that we received from the first iteration around what should be negotiated in the treaty.
19:43
So in a similar vein, we thought, you know, none of us were guaranteed to return as members.
19:50
Like we went to an election and, you know, as way of, you know, a gift.
19:55
And we were referring to this work as a bit of a gift over to Galangwal, which is all of the different projects and all the new powers.
20:03
We want to do some early preliminary thinking on that and give some recommendations to Galangwal.
22:54
Absolutely.

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