Noel Pearson calls for referendum on indigenous recognition / Noel Pearson, Dean Parkin, Vicki Morta.

Sydney : ABC Radio National, 2021.

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Human rights Australia.

Aboriginal Australians -- Legal status, laws, etc.

Aboriginal Australians -- civil rights.

Aboriginal Australians -- Politics and government.

Constitutional law -- Australia.

United Nations. General Assembly. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians has had the support of both Coalition and Labor governments. Yet still, we wait for a referendum. If not now, then when, asks Indigenous leader, Noel Pearson. Recognition is not, Pearson says, a project of woke identity politics, but our longest standing and unresolved project for justice and inclusion. Australia does not make sense with recognising its first nations people. Recorded at the National Museum of Australia on March 17, 2021. - Website

Speakers: Noel Pearson - lawyer; academic; land rights activist; founder, Cape York institute. Dean Parkin - Director, From The Heart. Vicki Morta - Indigenous ship's bosun. Duration: 54min 7sec. Broadcast: Wed 24 Mar 2021, 8:05pm.

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