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Give us a fair go, and we’ll make history together
November 21, 2020
The funeral procession hadn’t started yet. There was a feeling of distracted restlessness overlaid with the grief for another of our people who had...
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Uluru leaders warn ‘merely legislated’ voice unacceptable
November 19, 2020
Leaders who signed the Uluru statement have stepped up their campaign for a guaranteed pathway to a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous voice to...
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The Uluru statement is not Lego. The Greens can’t rearrange it to suit their ideals.
October 16, 2020
Bandt said the order of the reforms in the Uluru Statement should be changed from Voice, Treaty, Truth and retrofitted to the Greens’ preference of...
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Majority support Indigenous Voice to Parliament
July 15, 2020
Campaigners for a constitutionally enshrined indigenous voice to parliament have been buoyed by polling indicating support for the concept is incre...
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New agreement won’t deliver the change Indigenous Australians need
July 8, 2020
Most Australians, especially Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, are frustrated with the annual parliamentary ritual of lamenting the la...
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‘Voice to parliament’ essential, indigenous leaders say
June 10, 2020
A group of leading indigenous figures has warned that any constitutional change which does not include an enshrined “voice to parliament” will be ...
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After the protest, what comes next?
June 8, 2020
There is no denying the nationwide protests on Saturday, leveraging off Black Lives Matter and the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in ...
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We need new ways to listen to Indigenous voices
June 3, 2020
I’m getting placards made up. What do we want? Rigorous evaluation of real world outcomes of Indigenous policy interventions, based on robust quant...
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Extend national goodwill found in pandemic response to the Voice to Parliament
June 1, 2020
If the coronavirus pandemic has revealed anything it is that entrenched ideologies cannot produce solutions. In deeply challenging times like these...
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‘Unifying moment’: Campaign aims to amplify Indigenous voice
May 26, 2020
A new campaign will seek to galvanise support for a constitutionally enshrined First Nations voice to Parliament, with polling suggesting half the ...
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Indigenous voice ‘fundamental’ to reconciliation, says Linda Burney
May 26, 2020
Twenty years after Linda Burney helped organise the iconic walk for reconciliation across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the federal Labor MP fears the...
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Three years on from the Uluru Statement from the Heart
May 26, 2020
Three years ago, Indigenous elders and community leaders gathered in the Northern Territory and signed the Uluru Statement from the Heart. The stat...
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Philanthropic support for indigenous ‘voice’
May 25, 2020
One of Australia’s most prominent philanthropic families will fund scholarly work to underpin the constitutional reform called for in the Uluru Sta...
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Exactly what the Uluru Statement from the Heart is, and why it’s so important
January 25, 2020
As we reach another Australia Day/Invasion Day/Survival Day I reflect on the Uluru Statement from the Heart, the very generous offer made by First ...
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No Time for the Meek
October 1, 2019
It has been two years since the Referendum Council endorsed the Uluru Statement from the Heart, an open invitation from Aboriginal and Torres Strai...
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The Torment of Powerlessness
August 7, 2019
It’s a great honour to be invited to speak here this evening. I’m going to talk about constitutional recognition and the enabling of a voice for In...
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Why two chief justices support the Voice to parliament, and why that matters
August 1, 2019
On July 18, the former chief justice of the High Court of Australia, Murray Gleeson, delivered a powerful endorsement of the proposal for constitut...
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Voice of reason not beyond us
July 31, 2019
Australia’s national identity today encompasses many histories… Overshadowing all of those histories in its temporal sweep is that of Austral...
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Uluru plan could not be fairer
July 20, 2019
Some of the warnings to Scott Morrison from Coalition MPs and right-of-centre commentators about indigenous constitutional recognition are wise.
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Creating an Indigenous Voice to Parliament is achievable
July 19, 2019
Scrutinising the Australian Constitution with a view to identifying material that may offend current standards of political correctness is hardly a...
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Uluru voice means hard-headed changes
July 10, 2019
The significance of the Morrison government’s commitment during NAIDOC Week to a referendum on a constitutionally enshrined Voice to the Parliament...
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Why an Indigenous Voice would not be ‘third chamber’ of Parliament
May 28, 2019
At Uluru in 2017, Indigenous Australians made clear that the kind of constitutional recognition they wanted was a living and continuing recognition...
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My friends fear for the Uluru Statement under Morrison – but I don’t
May 27, 2019
On election night I was swapping messages with a good friend, a passionate, smart, generous advocate for Indigenous people who was now despondent. ...
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Indigenous leaders call for representative body and treaties process after Uluru convention
May 26, 2017
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