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Amending Australia’s Constitution to Create an Indigenous Voice to Parliament: Challenges Ahead

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Amending Australia’s Constitution to Create an Indigenous Voice to Parliament: Challenges Ahead

Gwendolyn Devoy

February 1, 2023 07:37:27 am

In 2017, 250 First Nations people gathered together from across Australia to draft and sign the Uluru Statement from the Heart. The Uluru Statement proposed a First Nations Voice to Parliament, a body to be enshrined in the Australian Constitution that would enable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to provide advice to the Parliament [...]

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