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Politicians are hoping for a consensus to come from the constitutional recognition conference this week. It’s unlikely to happen – here’s why
Australia’s federal political leadership wants a momentous thing from this week’s big meeting of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander delegates about constitutional “recognition” at Uluru.
Ideally, it wants the 300 or so delegates to emerge late this week (50 years since the 1967 referendum gave the commonwealth power to legislate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people) with a decision about how to constitutionally recognise Indigenous people that can be put to another peoples’ vote.
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