Australia's Labor government will take time to plan how to pursue reconciliation with the country's Indigenous people, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday, following the failure of a referendum to recognise them in the constitution.
on whether to alter the constitution to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people via an Indigenous advisory body, "the Voice to Parliament".
However, he said his government would take some time to carefully formulate a response, listening to the country's first inhabitants, and would respect the"The Uluru Statement from the Heart was developed over decades. The expectation that the next step should be developed over days, is not respectful," he said in parliament.
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