MPs given recognition deadline
Indigenous constitutional recognition should be achieved by the end of the next federal parliament, MPs have been told.
Indigenous constitutional recognition should be achieved by the end of the next federal parliament, MPs have been told.
An indigenous leader has quit the Liberal Party because of Malcolm Turnbull’s rejection of recognition proposals.
Malcolm Turnbull’s decision on indigenous recognition ‘underestimates the decency and intelligence of Australians’.
The indigenous constitutional recognition campaign risked breaching funding guidelines over a lack of transparency.
The campaign for constitutional recognition is being quietly abandoned after years and tens of millions of dollars in funding.
Twenty hand-picked trainees from the Gove Peninsula will begin program preparing them to work on a new mine.
Malcolm Turnbull has promised to “bring all Australians along with us” in the push for indigenous recognition.
‘Point scoring’ by indigenous MPs over constitutional recognition must be countered by leaders, says an ex-candidate.
The report on indigenous constitutional recognition will soon be open to full scrutiny, its authors have predicted.
Treaties would go hand-in-glove with a proposed indigenous parliamentary advisory body, commissioner June Oscar says.
SENIOR Yolngu clan leaders will ask Tony Abbott to take up the cause of inspiring the nation to support constitutional recognition.
WESLEY Aird says recognising indigenous Australians in the Constitution is not the most pressing issue for his people.
THERE are lessons to be learned from New Zealand’s efforts to do justice to the Maoris by acknowledging past wrongs.
TONY Abbott has warned against moves to turn the proposed referendum on constitutional recognition into a charter of rights.
IMMEDIATE improvements in indigenous education, employment and community safety should come before constitutional recognition.
EXPLICIT prohibition of racial discrimination is likely to be a condition of bipartisan support for any indigenous referendum, the ALP says.
ADAM Goodes said there were “uncomfortable conversations” to have about constitutional recognition for indigenous Australians.
THE father of reconciliation, Patrick Dodson, has objected to proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act.
THE AFL will declare its backing for the Recognise campaign to acknowledge indigenous Australians in the Constitution.
THE seeds of constitutional recognition were planted in Budat Mununggurr’s homeland decades before she was born.
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