Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for his question. The First Nations constitutional convention was held at Uluru in 2017, just more than six years ago, and it was timed to commemorate the date of the 1967 referendum. That arose out of, originally, the proposal from John Howard as Prime Minister, who went to the election in 2007 saying that he would support a referendum on constitutional recognition. Then the Gillard government began a process with a constitutional recognition working group, which led to the process of people, including the member for Berowra and others like Noel Pearson and other senior legal commentators, working on proposals. Then there was a series of consultations in the lead-up to the Uluru statement, in the lead-up to that constitutional convention.

When that occurred then, there was—

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