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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice Referendum Joint Select Committee; Report

Monday, 22 May 2023 House of Representatives

Peta Murphy

Peta Murphy Dunkley, Australian Labor Party

12:30 pm

Yes, because you know what happened when the Constitution was drafted and what there's no mention of in the dissenting report, when it says that citizenship rights were left out of the Constitution? There's no mention of the fact that First Nations people were left out of the Constitution. That's what we're here to address. When the Constitution was drafted it had no respect for people who had lived here for more than 60,000 years before colonisation, and this simple and elegant change—

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