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In order to see how the Voice to Parliament could work as an advisory body, we could look to the many Indigenous advisory bodies in different states informing government decision-making.

Ahead of the referendum, what would a Voice to Parliament mean for the country’s legislature and its mining industry?

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people Voice will be a body representing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people that will give advice to the Australian Parliament and government on issues that affect them. The proposal to establish the Voice will be voted on in a referendum on October 14, 2023.

The Barunga Festival gets underway, marking 35 years since Indigenous leaders presented the Barunga Statement to former prime minister Bob Hawke. So, what's changed since then?

The reconciliation movement in Australia officially started in 1991, a year after a treaty was supposed to be delivered.  

“I commit to the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full.” With those 11 words, among his first as prime minister-elect, Anthony Albanese defined his term as the nation’s leader. Regardless of nearly everything else his government would or wouldn’t do, history would judge it on the extent to which it succeeds or fails to implement the Uluru statement’s three main demands: Voice, Treaty, Truth.

The Australian Financial Review: Photos of the Week, December 2, 2022

ACC backs Uluru Statement from the Heart in open letter to PM By Emma Ryan|17 February 2021 The Association of Corporate Counsel Australia (ACC Australia) has outlined its support for the Uluru Statement from the Heart in an open letter addressed to Prime Minister Scott Morrison. The legal body sent a letter to the PM earlier this month following a vote from the board to move forward in supporting the statement. The Uluru Statement from the Heart calls on organisations to make a submission in ...