Everything You Need to Know About the Uluru Statement from the Heart

Everything You Need to Know About the Uluru Statement from the Heart

by Megan Davis and George Williams
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 01/06/2021

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We leave base camp and start our trek across this vast country. We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future.


On 26 May 2017, after a historic process of consultation, the Uluru Statement from the Heart was read out. This clear and urgent call for reform to the community from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples asked for a First Nations Voice to Parliament protected in the Constitution and a process of agreement-making and truth-telling. Voice. Treaty. Truth.


What was the journey to this point? What do Australians need to know about the Uluru Statement from the Heart? And how can these reforms be achieved?


Everything You Need to Know about the Uluru Statement from the Heart, written by Megan Davis and George Williams, two of Australia's best-known constitutional experts, is essential reading on how our Constitution was drafted, what the 1967 referendum achieved, and the lead-up and response to the Uluru Statement. Importantly, it explains how the Uluru Statement offers change that will benefit the whole nation.


'This is the first authoritative book on the Uluru Statement from the Heart and a constitutional Voice. It is a must read for all Australians as the nation prepares for a referendum. It is a vitally important book written for all Australians who have accepted the Uluru invitation and are walking with us in a journey of the Australian people for a better future.' - Patricia Anderson AO, Alyawarre woman


'This book is the first comprehensive historical and contemporary story of the Uluru Statement and its place in the Aboriginal struggle for rights and recognition. It shines a light on the leadership of First Nations peoples. And it highlights the hopes of First Nations for democratic change using the people power of all Australians walking together and exercising our collective agency for change.' - Sally Scales, Pitjantjatjara woman, Chair of theAnanguPitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands Executive Board

ISBN:
9781742245300
9781742245300
Category:
Australasian & Pacific history
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
01-06-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
NewSouth Publishing
Megan Davis

Megan Davis was born in Australia and grew up in mining towns across the world. She has worked in the film industry and her credits include Atonement, In Bruges, Pride and Prejudice and the Bourne films. Megan is also a lawyer and is currently an associate at Spotlight on Corruption.

She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. Her debut The Messenger won the Bridport Prize for a First Novel in 2018, judged by Kamila Shamsie, as well as the Lucy Cavendish Prize for unpublished writers in 2021. She has lived in many places, including France for a number of years, but now lives in London.

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