The 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart is one of the most significant documents on constitutional change in Australian history. The result of extensive consultation and debate, it explains how First Nations want to be included in the constitution.
Despite the enormous moral authority of the statement, its call for a constitutionally enshrined Voice to Parliament was immediately rejected by then-Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. His successor, Scott Morrison, is also opposed.
Instead, Morrison has proposed a legislated Voice to Government. In December, his government published a report on how that might work. The Indigenous co-design group who worked on it was not allowed to consider whether the Voice should be put in the Constitution.
