Senate debates
Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Questions without Notice
Indigenous Australians
2:57 pm
Malarndirri McCarthy (NT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Indigenous Australians) Share this | Hansard source
I thank the senator for her interest in truth-telling and for her interest in wanting to know about the Uluru Statement from the Heart. As I said at Senate estimates, our government supports, in principle, the Uluru Statement from the Heart, with voice, treaty, truth. We have never shied away from that. We accept that we lost the referendum and we accept the decision of the Australian people, but we also acknowledge that there is only one question that was put to the Australian people, and the question was on a Voice to the Parliament. There was no question on Welcome to Country, there was no question on Makarrata. There was no question on truth-telling. I would remind the Senate—
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