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Indigenous affairs correspondent Carly Williams

Push for Indigenous Voice to Parliament is about justice and unity, not identity politics, Noel Pearson says

Constitutional recognition of Australia's First Nations people is "not a project of identity politics" but one of "justice, unity and inclusion", Noel Pearson has declared.

The Indigenous leader, from the Guugu Yimidhirr community of Hope Vale on the Cape York Peninsula, also said "racism will diminish" if the upcoming national poll to enshrine a First Nations voice to Parliament in the Constitution results in a 'yes' vote.

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