Australians urged to make Uluru Statement from the Heart an election issue
by Calla Wahlquist from World news | The Guardian on (#5XAMD)
Forget the government,' Referendum Council co-chair says, calling instead for a people's movement'
The authors of the Uluru Statement from the Heart are calling on Australians to make constitutional change an election issue, saying the only chance for reform is if voters, not the government, start to demand it.
Look, forget the government," said Pat Anderson, a Alyawarre woman who co-chaired the Referendum Council, which designed the process that resulted in the Uluru statement. They are not going to do it, even the people five years ago ... we know that they are not going to do it. That's why we have to appeal to the Australian people now."
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