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Abe Maddison

First Voice to parliament urges meaningful change

SA's Voice to Parliament will advise on law and policies impacting First Nations people. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

A leader of Australia's first state-based indigenous Voice to Parliament has delivered a historic address, urging the "once in a lifetime opportunity" be seized to achieve meaningful change for First Nations people.

Speaking to a joint sitting of South Australia's houses of parliament, and the members elected to the act's body, Voice presiding officer Leeroy Bilney noted there had never been an elected member of parliament whose origin story begins in the storylines of First Nations people of SA. 

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