The Victorian Greens want to stand in solidarity with protesters in the United States, saying Aboriginal people in Australia also continue to be racially profiled.
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MP Samantha Ratnam put forward a notice of motion in Parliament on Wednesday, which proposed the upper house "expresses its solidarity with the Black Lives Matter protestors" and "acknowledges Victoria's own history of racist oppression of First Nation peoples".
Hundreds of people marched through Sydney in protest on Tuesday and Melbourne will hold its own protest on Saturday.
Dr Ratnam said the rate of imprisonment of Indigenous people in Victoria has doubled in the past 10 years, which she said was a direct result of government policy.
"Aboriginal people continue to be over-policed and racial profiled," she said.
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She called on the government to consult with the Indigenous community in order to develop law reform, and allow protests to continue in Victoria without fining people for breaching coronavirus restrictions.
Premier Daniel Andrews has warned that if the protest was not peaceful, police would step in to restore order, but acknowledged it was not feasible for police to arrest or fine people for gathering in a large group.
Liberal MP Bev McArthur questioned why a protest over Victoria's plan to cull brumbies in the state high country was restricted to 20 people, but the weekend protests could go ahead in larger numbers without worrying about fines.
"All lives matter. Brumby lives matter too," she said.
"While Victoria remains locked up more than anywhere else in this country, a protest with 29,000 people having flagged their interest in attending (on social media) will be allowed to go ahead because this government ideologically agrees with it."
Liberal Democrat MP David Limbrick called on the government to implement the recommendations of an inquiry into Victoria's Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission and create a "civilian oversight body" to handle police complaints.
"I am sure many members of the chamber would share my concern at the things happening in the United States of America right now following the death of George Floyd in the custody of police," he said.
"I will not pretend to have all the answers to the problems of race and policing, but the protests that have erupted around the world in solidarity share a common theme: there is a lack of civilian police oversight.
"'We have investigated ourselves and found that we did nothing wrong' is insufficient."
