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Sections of the Final Report described as 'extracts from the Uluru Statement from the Heart' include a section titled 'Our Story', outlining Indigenous history and resistance, [48] a set of 'Guiding Principles' to govern the assessment of any proposals that result from the Uluru Statement, [49] and a further analysis of Voice, Treaty and Truth ...
The Uluru Statement from the Heart was the culmination of a national Indigenous public consultation process in May 2017 at the First Nations National Constitutional Convention held at Uluru. [1] It proposed constitutional reform on three points: voice, truth, and treaty. [12]
On 21 May 2022, the Australian Labor Party won government, with party leader Anthony Albanese becoming Prime Minister.During his victory speech, Albanese committed to holding a referendum to enshrine an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in his government's first term of office, acting on the 2017 request of Indigenous leaders for such a body made with the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison rejected the proposal in the Uluru Statement for a voice to parliament to be put into the Australian Constitution; instead, in his government's model, the voice would be enshrined in legislation. The government also said it would run a referendum during its present term about recognising Indigenous people in the ...
The Uluru Dialogue (2017), a collective which includes creators of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, along with various academics and lawyers based at the University of New South Wales; chaired by Megan Davis and Pat Anderson [1] From the Heart (2020); operates under the auspices of Noel Pearson's Cape York Institute in North Queensland [1]
A treaty is a legal document defining the relationship between two sovereign entities. As of 2020 [update] there are no treaties between the Australian Government and Indigenous peoples of Australia; [ 57 ] There are ongoing negotiations in some states and territories of Australia on the possible crafting of treaties between Indigenous peoples ...
Indigenous treaties in Australia are proposed binding legal agreements between Australian governments and Australian First Nations (or other similar groups). A treaty could (amongst other things) recognise First Nations as distinct political communities, acknowledge Indigenous Sovereignty, set out mutually recognised rights and responsibilities or provide for some degree of self-government. [1]
The Yirrkala bark petitions, sent by the Yolngu people, an Aboriginal Australian people of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, to the Australian Parliament in 1963, were the first traditional documents prepared by Indigenous Australians that were recognised by the Australian Parliament, and the first documentary recognition of Indigenous people in Australian law.