Abstract
The Uluru Statement from the Heart of May 2017 articulated an Indigenous vision for a better relationship between settler and Indigenous Australians: one ‘based on justice and self-determination’. The culmination of years of consultation with Indigenous people about constitutional recognition, the statement proposed a referendum in which the Australian people could approve (or not) the formation of an Indigenous deliberative and advisory body – a Voice to Parliament. The government-appointed Referendum Council endorsed this proposal, but the Australian Government quickly dismissed it in October 2017. One prominent advocate of the Uluru Statement and member of the Referendum Council, Megan Davis, seemed to anticipate that response when, back in January 2016, she stated that ‘Australia has rejected self-determination – freedom, agency, choice, autonomy, dignity – as being fundamental to Indigenous humanness and development’.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Indigenous Self-Determination in Australia: Histories and Historiography |
| Editors | Laura Rademaker, Tim Rowse |
| Place of Publication | Acton, A.C.T. |
| Publisher | ANU Press |
| Pages | 1-36 |
| Number of pages | 36 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781760463786 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781760463779 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2020 |
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This title is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).Keywords
- Aboriginal Australians
- civil rights
- government policy
- government relations
- history
