‘Time to be fearless’: NT attorney general urges Australian leaders to pursue treaty after voice defeat

Chansey Paech says the Uluru statement is not finished' despite the result of the voice referendum

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The Northern Territory's attorney general is urging the nation's leaders to put last year's voice referendum result behind them and move to forge treaties with Indigenous people because the time for sorry business is over".

The attorney general and deputy chief minister, Chansey Paech, is urging the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, and state and territory colleagues not to allow the referendum result to stall progress on the other elements of the Uluru statement from the heart.

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