Anthony Albanese's commitment to the Uluru Statement From the Heart and the challenges faced by the Australian Labor Party in pursuing Indigenous rights.
"On behalf of the Australian Labor Party , I commit to the Uluru Statement From the Heart in full." Anthony Albanese's first words on election night 2022 put his incoming government on a course first outlined in the dust of the Northern Territory five years earlier. That path, set out in the 2017 Uluru Statement, was clear: Voice, Treaty, and then Truth.
But less than 18 months after the prime minister-elect addressed that euphoric crowd in Sydney's Marrickville, Indigenous academic and leader Marcia Langton was declaring Reconciliation "dead". Every state, and more than 60 per cent of Australians overall, had rejected the Voice. Albanese's commitment had fallen over at the first hurdle. Many believed the bruising defeat could make Labor unable, or even unwilling, to pursue Indigenous rights. Fears abounded that a week of silence, announced by Indigenous leaders soon after the result became clear, could morph into a term of inaction from the government. Speaking on referendum night, Albanese insisted the goals had not change
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