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'Statement on the First Nations National Constitutional Convention.'
'Coming from all points of the southern sky, over 250 Delegates gathered at the 2017 First Nations National Constitutional Convention and today made a historic statement from the heart in hopes of improving the lives of future generations.' (Introduction)
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Tracking Dark Emu
2021
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— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2021; Meanjin , Summer vol. 80 no. 4 2021;'The Uluru Statement from the Heart of May 2017 was addressed to the people of Australia from 250 delegates ‘coming from all points of the southern sky’. While clearly a political manifesto, it embodied significant assertions about both history and law, declaring that the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tribes were the ‘first sovereign Nations of the Australian continent and its adjacent islands, and possessed it under our own laws and customs’. This sovereignty, the statement continued, ‘has never been ceded or extinguished, and co-exists with the sovereignty of the Crown’. How could it be otherwise, the delegates asked, ‘that peoples possessed a land for 60 millennia and this sacred link disappears from world history in merely the last two hundred years?’' (Introduction)
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‘Coming Together After a Struggle’ : A Process of Belated State-building
2021
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 433 2021; (p. 11-12)'The Uluru Statement from the Heart was made at a historic assembly of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples at Uluru in 2017. It addresses the fundamental question of how Indigenous peoples want to be recognised in the Australian Constitution. The answer given is a First Nations ‘Voice’ to Federal Parliament protected by the Constitution, and a subsequent process of agreement-making and truth-telling. This process should be overseen by a Makarrata Commission, from the Yolngu word meaning ‘the coming together after a struggle’. Inspired by the values enshrined in the Statement, Victoria has established such a process through the Yoo-rrook Justice Commission. ‘Yoo-rrook’ is a Wemba Wemba/Wamba Wamba word meaning ‘truth’.' (Introduction)
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Come Writers and Critics
2021
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 22 May 2021; (p. 19) -
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Everything You Need to Know About the Uluru Statement from the Heart
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University of New South Wales Press
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2021
21958043
2021
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criticism
'We leave base camp and start our trek across this vast country. We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future.
'On 26 May 2017, after a historic process of consultation, the Uluru Statement from the Heart was read out. This clear and urgent call for reform to the community from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples asked for the establishment of a First Nations Voice to Parliament protected in the constitution and a process of agreement-making and truth-telling. Voice. Treaty. Truth.
'What was the journey to this point? What do Australians need to know about the Uluru Statement from the Heart? And how can these reforms be achieved?
'Everything You Need to Know about the Uluru Statement from the Heart , written by Megan Davis and George Williams, two of Australia’s best-known constitutional experts, is essential reading on how our Constitution was drafted, what the 1967 referendum achieved, and the lead-up and response to the Uluru Statement. Importantly, it explains how the Uluru Statement offers change that will benefit the whole nation.' (Publication summary)
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The Uluru Statement, Four Years on
2021
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— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 29 May - 4 June 2021;'This year marks the beginning of the second decade of constitutional recognition. Who could’ve known when Julia Gillard created the expert panel, at the urging of the Greens and independents Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor, that 10 years, seven processes and nine reports later the nation would still be waiting for the Commonwealth to act?' (Introduction)
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'We Want Referendum' : Intensive Uluru Talks Call for an End to the Fighting
2017
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— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 28 May 2017;'Joint statement from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders sends out a message of unity and strength.'
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The Making of the Uluru Statement
2017
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— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 3-9 June 2017;'In early 2014, just as a parliamentary committee was being established to produce a road map towards Indigenous constitutional recognition, Cape York leader Noel Pearson began his own series of quiet consultations with people he calls “constitutional conservatives”.' (Introduction)
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Report Key to Future : Mixed Reaction to Uluru Statement
2017
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— Appears in: Koori Mail , 14 June no. 653 2017; (p. 5) 'Indigenous Australians are waiting to find out what last month's historic Uluru Statement from the Heart will mean.' -
The Uluru Statement...
2017
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— Appears in: Koori Mail , 14 June no. 653 2017; (p. 19) 'Julius Caesar developed a 500-year strategy of colonisation. The Romans realised you couldn't conquer a people over a generation - it takes generations.' (Introduction) -
The New Voice of Indigenous Australia
2017
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— Appears in: The New York Times , 12 September 2017; (p. A1)'Nothing prepares you for your first sight of Uluru. Amid the vastness of Australia’s arid red center, there is something wondrous about this monumental slab of sandstone rising dramatically out of a flattened landscape. It is not difficult to see why Indigenous Australians saw it as a sacred place.' (Introduction)