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"We seek constitutional reforms to empower our people and take a rightful place in our own country. When we have power over our destiny our children will flourish. They will walk in two worlds and their culture will be a gift to their country." - Uluru Statement from the Heart.
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Tracing the journey to the Uluru statement, Natassia Chrysanthos articulates the amazing walk that was taken to bring this message to the Australian People.
Source: Sydney Morning Herald.
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'On 26 May 2017, more than 250 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples gathered at the First Nations Constitutional Convention and issued the Uluru Statement from the Heart. This Convention was the culmination of an Indigenous-designed and -led process of regional dialogues across the nations designed to elicit from First Nations what meaningful constitutional recognition would mean to them. The deliberative dialogue process adopted by the Referendum Council sought to build an informed consensus across Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities on reform proposals.
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'Rather than engendering guilt, the focus should be on healing historical wounds threatening the nation’s future.'
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Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous and Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) (as at 2018), Megan Davis was previously Director of the Indigenous Law Centre at UNSW. She has been a Commissioner of the New South Wales Land and Environment Court and a fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, a UN expert member, and chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Prof Davis is a Cobble Cobble Aboriginal woman from south-west and south-east QLD.
Megan Davis is a Cobble Cobble woman from Queensland, a pro vice chancellor and professor of law at UNSW, and a member of the Referendum Council. She read the Uluru Statement from the Heart aloud on behalf of the caucus of Traditional Custodians gathered at Uluru to the people of Australia.
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