Indigenous leader Noel Pearson continues push for constitutional recognition and Voice to Parliament

Noel Pearson says as long as the nation's Indigenous peoples remain unrecognised, Australia is an "absurdity".(

ABC News: Tim Leslie

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Indigenous leader Noel Pearson says Australia is incomplete without constitutional recognition of First Nations people, as leaders renew calls for a referendum on a Voice to Parliament.

In a speech at the National Museum of Australia, Mr Pearson urged the government not to give up on the decades-long push for constitutional recognition and reiterated his support for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament to be enshrined in the constitution, in line with the calls of the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart.