Mark Dreyfus (Isaacs, Australian Labor Party, Cabinet Secretary) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Lingiari for her question. In 2015, a Liberal prime minister and a Labor opposition leader asked the question: how do Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people want to be recognised in the Constitution? The answer to that question did not come from politicians. It could not have come from politicians. Only Indigenous Australians could answer that question, and in 2017 they did. In 2017 over 250 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander delegates gathered at Uluru and issued the Uluru Statement from the Heart, calling for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voice. This was and is how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people—

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