Senate debates

Wednesday, 9 August 2023

Questions without Notice

Uluru Statement from the Heart

2:37 pm

Photo of Penny WongPenny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I am happy to start again if the senator wishes, but I was referring to Chris Kenny's response to this. He referred to 'furphies', including that the Uluru statement is 26 pages long. He says: 'This is simply untrue. They are not part of that Uluru statement. The Referendum Council six years ago took these background papers and published them in a report. They published background material for the Uluru Statement from the Heart. In fact, the paragraph introducing these pages they call a synthesis of records of meetings of the dialogue. This synthesis is called "Our story", which happens to be the heading of the first page after the one-page Uluru statement. But we have been distracted into this discussion. This is a clear invitation from— (Time expired)

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