Fri. Nov 22nd, 2024
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Six years ago, while the sun crept up into the crevices of Uluru, millions of Australians woke to what seemed like just another morning in May.

But for a few hundred First Nations people gathered in the centre of Australia, history was being made.

With bleary eyes after a sleepless night, one of the Aboriginal leaders there described his “euphoria”.

Indigenous people had just agreed to a consensus position on what we now know as the Uluru Statement from the Heart — a request for Australians to change our constitution.

They called it a simple plea to be heard, an idea they believed could repair the wounds of colonisation that run so deep.

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