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When the Uluru Statement from the Heart was released in May 2017, it offered a new compact with all Australians that would reset our national identity. But, as Stan Grant writes, “its poetic vision and pragmatism proved its death knell”. Since then, a constitutionally enshrined voice to parliament has been rejected, treaty remains a dream – the Uluru statement offered nation-building to a nation that seems content with itself.
It became an easy target for suggestions that it might privilege one group of AUstralians over another. While polling has always shown strong support for constitutional recognition, such goodwill can dissolve easily against a fear campaign.
The statement still offers us a clarion call for all Australians to walk together to a better future. But first, Grant argues, we must remove some of the blindfolds of our liberalism.
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Amanda Dunn
Section Editor: Politics + Society
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