Time to end the constitution's silence on Australia's first people: report

By Michael Gordon
Updated June 25 2015 - 5:18pm, first published 4:59pm
Liberal MP and committee chairman Ken Wyatt embraced by Labor senator and deputy chair Nova Peris after he tabled the committee's report on constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. Photo: Andrew Meares
Liberal MP and committee chairman Ken Wyatt embraced by Labor senator and deputy chair Nova Peris after he tabled the committee's report on constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. Photo: Andrew Meares
Committee members Shayne Neumann, Senator Nova Peris, Senator Rachel Siewert, Ken Wyatt, Stephen Jones and Sarah Henderson, after the report was tabled. Photo: Andrew Meares
Committee members Shayne Neumann, Senator Nova Peris, Senator Rachel Siewert, Ken Wyatt, Stephen Jones and Sarah Henderson, after the report was tabled. Photo: Andrew Meares
Mr Wyatt presenting the report. Photo: Andrew Meares
Mr Wyatt presenting the report. Photo: Andrew Meares

An ambitious model for "substantive" recognition of Indigenous Australians in the country's founding document and a pathway to achieve it are proposed in the unanimous final report of an all-party committee.

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