Advocacy group GetUp has criticised the Albanese government for "passing the buck" on a Treaty process by seemingly delegating the process to the states and territories.
The treaty process is in different stages across Australia, with Victoria - which will see the First Peoples' Assembly begin treaty negotiations with the State Government this year - the most advanced in the process.
However, the parliamentary oppositions in Queensland, NT, NSW and Victorian have all withdrawn their support for treaties since the Voice to Parliament referendum. With elections in both Queensland and NT scheduled for later this year, GetUp argues the process is at risk.
"The Productivity Commission's report on the National Agreement towards Closing the Gap found measures have largely failed to produce positive outcomes for First Nations people," GetUp said on Thursday.
"We cannot back away from a national treaty and leave this up to the states. The Government needs to step up to their promises and negotiate a national treaty now."
The Productivity Commission report highlighted the need for better communication with Aboriginal people and organisations. Numerous Indigenous-led organisations, including the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, have argued treaties are a way for Indigenous outcomes to be improved, by allowing Aboriginal people to oversee areas of policy that directly impact them.
GetUp chief executive and Widjabul Wia-bal woman Larissa Baldwin-Roberts said the government needed to better communicate their plan for a treaty process.
"After another year of failed outcomes in the Closing the Gap report, what is clear is that it's time to do something new and the Albanese Government needs to articulate their plan for a federal treaty process," Ms Baldwin-Roberts said.
"First Nations affairs have been weaponised in our politics, Labor committed to a truth-telling and treaty process, and we will hold the government accountable to their election promise for Treaty and truth-telling."
Her comments mirror those of independent senator Lidia Thorpe, who argued Labor "will take the nation backward" in their abandonment of the treaty and truth-telling process.
Senator Thorpe said on Tuesday it was a "huge disappointment" to see Labor's intent to "kick the can down the road, dodge questions, delay progress…and hope people forget that they've broken yet another promise".
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the government would "take the time needed to get Makarrata and truth-telling right" whilst highlighting the work of treaty at a "state and territory level".
The Makarrata Commission's goal - derived from the Yolngu word meaning the coming together after a struggle - is "Voice, Treaty, Truth."
Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney said on Tuesday the government would "take things as fast or as slow as the community wants to," noting whilst Labor completely accepted the referendum result on Voice, it did "leave the truth-telling and treaty components".
Ms Baldwin-Roberts said the referendum result didn't mean people would move away from supporting the treaty process.
"We know 6 million people voted for First Nations justice, for change in the referendum through a yes vote, we won't walk away from a treaty - something our communities have been fighting for, for decades," she said.
Some politicians have argued the voice referendum result means support for Treaty is low, however prominent No campaigners Warren Mundine and Senator Thorpe have both stated their desire for a treaty process.
Conversely, former Indigenous Minister Ken Wyatt - who left the Liberal Party after their opposition to the voice - told The Australian on Thursday the government should drop their support for Makarrata to avoid "antagonism".
