Indigenous Australians Minister Ken Wyatt is working towards a referendum on constitution recognition of the nation's first peoples in this term of parliament. 9News
"It's a high hurdle to have to leap over, but it's one that protects our democracy."
Australians overwhelmingly voted on that occasion for changes to the constitution to include Indigenous people in the census and allow the federal government to create laws for them. "When I take the notion of the voice, that voice was not just a singular voice, it is voices at every level."The Uluru Statement from the Heart in 2017 called for a First Nations Voice enshrined in the constitution and the creation of a powerful "Makarrata Commission" of elected elders that would supervise agreement-making between government and indigenous people.
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