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Noel Pearson

Noel Pearson is hopeful for Indigenous recognition through a Voice to Parliament in Boyers lecture

We are on the last leg of a long journey.

We are encamped on the hinterlands of the great capitals of the Federation: Hobart, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and the nation's capital: Canberra, seeking for a majority of these states, in their own right and by a majority of the total of Australian electors, to approve an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth, recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Peoples of Australia through a Voice.

We wait the final stretch. Since we left Uluru on 27 May 2017, millions of Australians have joined the journey.

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