‘A civil, mature conversation’: architects of the Uluru Statement make plea for consensus on referendum

Prof Megan Davis, who was involved in the Uluru Statement from the Heart, says an Indigenous voice to parliament will make change faster than a treaty. Photograph: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images

It’s been a week since the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, revealed the government’s preferred “yes or no” question to ask Australians in a referendum to enshrine an Indigenous voice to parliament in the constitution.

There has already been intense speculation about what the next steps will be – questions about what a voice would do, debate about whether it will be “practical” or “symbolic”, and calls for detail about how it would operate.