Quote: 250 delegates gathered on 26 May 2017 near Uluru.

Thirteen Regional Dialogues proposed three reforms, endorsed by the National Constitutional Convention. Documented in the final report of the 2017 Referendum Council.

Participation in the Uluru Statement from the Heart was by invitation from local Indigenous organisations, mostly land councils, who selected the participants.

Roughly, 60 percent of places were to be reserved for First Nations/Traditional Owner groups; 20 percent of places for Aboriginal community organisations; and 20 percent of places for individuals such as activists, Elders, youth, members from the Stolen Generations, and significant figures.

The Uluru Statement proposes: "Voice, Treaty, Truth"
Voice is referring to a constitutionally enshrined Voice to the executive Parliament. The Constitutional referendum would amend the Constitution to authorise the Parliament to make a law guaranteeing a First Nations voice to Parliament.

Treaty or Makarrata is a word from the language of the Yolngu people in Arnhem Land. Since the 1980’s it has commonly been used to refer to “treaty”; it means coming together to heal wounds of the past. A “Makarrata/Treaty commission” would supervise an agreement-making between First Nations and the Australian governments at a national and regional level.

“Truth-telling” is another function of the Makarrata Commission, to tell the truth about the Aboriginal side of Australian history and to bring awareness about the impact of colonisation and dispossession. The Commission would capture these stories as well as stories of co-existence, to create a path for reconciliation between First Nations and Australians.

An example of truth-telling can be found on page fourteen of the Referendum Council’s report from Ross River:

“Participants expressed disgust about a statue of John McDouall Stuart being erected in Alice Springs following the 150th anniversary of his successful attempt to reach the Top End. This expedition led to the opening up of the ‘South Australian frontier’ which lead to massacres as the telegraph line was established.Its presence and the fact that Stuart is holding a gun is disrespectful to the Aboriginal community who are descendants of the families slaughtered during the massacres throughout central Australia.”

More than 1200 Indigenous leaders representing 13 First Nations Regional Dialogues across the country were part of the process:

Hobart, hosted by Tasmanian Aboriginal Corporation (9–11 December 2016);
Broome, hosted by the Kimberley Land Council (10–12 February 2017);
Dubbo, hosted by the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council (17–19 February 2017);
Darwin, hosted by the Northern Land Council (22–24 February 2017);
Perth, hosted by the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council (3–5 March 2017);
Sydney, hosted by the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council (10–12 March 2017);
Melbourne, hosted by the Federation of Victorian Traditional Owners Corporation (17–19 March 2017);
Cairns, hosted by the North Queensland Land Council (24–27 March 2017);
Ross River, hosted by the Central Land Council (31 March – 2 April 2017);
Adelaide, hosted by the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement Inc (7–9 April 2017);
Brisbane, (21–23 April 2017);
Thursday Island, hosted by Torres Shire Council and a number of Torres Strait regional organisations (5–7 May 2017).
The 13th dialogue refers to a truncated dialogue session hosted by the United Ngunnawal Elders Council in Canberra on 10 May 2017.
The Referendum Council sought the approval of the Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader to base the dialogues on the six reform proposals below and ask the dialogues: What is meaningful recognition to you?

A symbolic statement of recognition.
Deletion of section 25 of the Constitution (section 25 says that if a State law disqualifies all the people of any race from voting in State elections, then those persons shall not be counted when working out how many seats each state gets in the House of Representatives. The deletion is symbolic as it’s inoperative at the moment).
Deletion and replacement or moderation of section 51 (xxvi), the race power.
A racial non-discrimination clause.
A constitutionally enshrined Voice to the Parliament.
Agreement-making.

Josephus mate,

Are you really that thick?

Here you are posting "Research conducted by the Literacy for Life Foundation estimates between 40 and 65 per cent of Aboriginal adults are functionally illiterate in English, with that figure likely even higher in regional and remote areas." which in anyone's language except it seems yours, speaks eloquently about the divide in this country and the need to start healing it. But somehow you use it in an argument against the Voice.

It isn't you clown.

BTW posting crap from the Cretin is disgusting.

BTW posting crap from the Cretin is disgusting.
Posted by SteeleRedux, Friday, 22 September 2023 9:50:28 PM

Answer- I think SteeleRedux is "disgusting" but there you go. Josephus must have said something against SteeleRedux's ideology in order for him to get so upset. I suppose he'll double down now. If we don't fear "the truth" then we have no need to fear SteeleRedux as he'll keep hanging himself the longer the conversation goes on.

Steele cannot see it is the elite Uluru activits that are dividing this country by race, whichis a Marxist agenda. The genuine disadvantaged know nothing about the Voice and the Uluru Statement and they do not want Government interferrence in their lives. I want a unified nation one people of many races living equally together, supporting the disadvantaged of any race.

Well, well, well. Looky here. I was wondering where you two were having your leashes pulled from.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-23/white-supremacist-red-over-black-geoff-mcdonald-voice/102891560

"But then on January 30, the anti-Semitic website XYZ — founded by white supremacist David Hiscox — linked McDonald's work to the proposed Voice and described it as "communism by the back door".

Two days later, a new telegram channel, Aboriginal Voice Exposed (AVE) was created. It would go on to become one of the most shared anti-Indigenous and anti-Voice to Parliament spaces on Telegram.

Its very first post was a link to McDonald's documentary, which it claimed "exposes the Communist and New World Order agenda behind Aboriginal activism and the so-called Aboriginal Voice To Parliament"."

And

"A copy of the Blacklisted Research's video was shared more than 4,400 times on Facebook.

Since it was posted on Facebook on July 23, it has been shared almost twice as many times as any post by the official Yes23 campaign. It has outperformed most official Vote No material, including that of senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and No-vote advocate Warren Mundine, and most of One Nation leader Pauline Hanson's Facebook posts."

Useful idiots without original thoughts parroting narratives from the far right.

Well done the ABC. I had been bemused about the whole communist meme focus as it raised itself during the campaign. Josephus has probably been the most prolific user of the term:

"Take a look at the photo here of Anthony Albanese with Who/ None other than Marcia Langton and Thomas Mayo both communists. If you can trust the Communists, you may vote Yes, if not Vote NO!"

But now his little Toto CM is on the bandwagon as well:

"but the Communists don't care if the Aboriginals don't make it as long as the Communists get what they want."

Worker bee stuff. Pathetic.

OLO has really become just a place to post completely unoriginal memes, by unthinking drones, parroting hard right talking points.

It never use to be like this.