The Uluru Statement from the Heart

General Chat In The News
1

One of the major issues mentioned by the new PM Anthony Albanese (Albo) was that the government would implement in full the Uluru Statement from the Heart which was created in 2017 which has been put on the back burner by the Coalition government.

The statement proposes a permanent first nations Voice to Parliament, and a Makarrata Commission to engage in agreement-making and to sponsor truth-telling about the past.

Changes to the constitution require a referendum.

This is the full text of the statement.

ULURU STATEMENT FROM THE HEART

We, gathered at the 2017 National Constitutional Convention, coming from all points of the
southern sky, make this statement from the heart:

Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tribes were the first sovereign Nations of the
Australian continent and its adjacent islands, and possessed it under our own laws and customs.
This our ancestors did, according to the reckoning of our culture, from the Creation, according
to the common law from ‘time immemorial’, and according to science more than 60,000 years
ago.

This sovereignty is a spiritual notion: the ancestral tie between the land, or ‘mother nature’,
and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who were born therefrom, remain
attached thereto, and must one day return thither to be united with our ancestors. This link is
the basis of the ownership of the soil, or better, of sovereignty. It has never been ceded or
extinguished, and co-exists with the sovereignty of the Crown.

How could it be otherwise? That peoples possessed a land for sixty millennia and this sacred
link disappears from world history in merely the last two hundred years?
With substantive constitutional change and structural reform, we believe this ancient
sovereignty can shine through as a fuller expression of Australia’s nationhood.

Proportionally, we are the most incarcerated people on the planet. We are not an innately
criminal people. Our children are aliened from their families at unprecedented rates. This
cannot be because we have no love for them. And our youth languish in detention in obscene
numbers. They should be our hope for the future.

These dimensions of our crisis tell plainly the structural nature of our problem. This is the
torment of our powerlessness.

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.

We call for the establishment of a First Nations Voice enshrined in the Constitution.
Makarrata is the culmination of our agenda: the coming together after a struggle. It captures
our aspirations for a fair and truthful relationship with the people of Australia and a better
future for our children based on justice and self-determination.

We seek a Makarrata Commission to supervise a process of agreement-making between
governments and First Nations and truth-telling about our history.

In 1967 we were counted, in 2017 we seek to be heard. We leave base camp and start our trek
across this vast country. We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people
for a better future.

image
image1200×850 263 KB

https://ulurustatement.org/

1 Like
2

@Bruce , Yeah , l have read about that before, and also watched a
documentary too !
So whens the referendum ?
And, how do the whities feel about this ?
Donkeyman! :roll_eyes::roll_eyes:

3

Are you of the aboriginal race Bruce

4

So what?

5

@Vlad , Brucy is of the ancient Briton race Vlad .
Donkeyman! :+1::roll_eyes::roll_eyes::+1:

6

Neanderthal? There is good fossil record they were in Britain in the distant past ----

7

Ahh thanks, reason I asked was that I had read somewhere that a lot of American citizens now claim to have Native American ancestors and now support their demands, along with those American citizens with Irish ancestry who support the demands of Irish Republicans.

8

The American Irish republicans should mind their own business .

3 Likes
9

@The_Artful_Todger , That was the word l was looking for aTodgy !!
Donkeyman! :roll_eyes::roll_eyes:

10

A powerful statement @Bruce , and in truth how many indigenous peoples around the world could assert the same history, doesn’t say much for the colonists does it


11

The interesting thing @Barry is that the colonialists of New Zealand made a treaty with the locals.

The Treaty of Waitangi is New Zealand’s founding document. It takes its name from the place in the Bay of Islands where it was first signed, on 6 February 1840. This day is now a public holiday in New Zealand. The Treaty is an agreement, in Māori and English, that was made between the British Crown and about 540 Māori rangatira (chiefs).

This did not happen in Australia.

The chances of any referendum succeeding are not good unless both major parties support it, the majority of referendums in Australia since Federation have failed.

12

“It’s the blood you’re thinking about isn’t it? British! Undiluted for 12 generations - 100% Anglo-Saxon, with perhaps just a dash of Viking.”

13

Scot Morrisons defeated party are known as the liberals - the equivalent to the uk tories. their view possible is that australia was either discovered by the british or acquired by them in various battles with Indigenous groups or ‘first nations’ people. [Aboriginal ; Indigenous ; First Nations people] all synonymous and including the Torres Strait Islander Nations just to make it more complicated. But conquering swathes of lands in the name of Queen Victoria was the modus operandi of the day and considered ‘normal’ and not ‘ungentlemanly’ The current Liberal Party [defeated] swear allegiance to the Queen as do the Labor party to some extent but are more flexible in forming treaties and respecting other tribal groups

14

Linda Burney, the next Minister for Indigenous Affairs was on the 7.30 Report last night talking about the way ahead for the Uluru Statement.

15

currently there are only six Indigenous members of parliament - one in the liberal/national party and two in the labor party and two smaller parties. Incidentally the Liberal party I think would find it very hard to exist without the support of the National party which represents the rural peoples [ usually white ] and so are more accurately labelled the Liberal National Party. The National member head conche was saying on tv today that there is no guarantee that they will stay with the Liberals but that is fighting talk that means very little

16

Its happening everywhere, folks trying to clear their distant (deceased) relatives consciences by proxy whilst retaining the wealth accrued in the interim.

4 Likes
17

can you give a few specific examples? - I know you like remaining vague as a modus operandum?

18

No!!!

19

don’t you mean “no thank you”??

20

I know what I mean.