Peta Murphy (Dunkley, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

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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