The three demands of the Uluru Statement, accepted entirely by the Prime Minister, are the Voice, a Makarrata Commission, and ‘truth telling about our history’.
But Uluru also asserts Aboriginal ‘ownership of the soil, or better, of sovereignty’ based on prior occupation, and asserts that such ‘sovereignty has never been ceded or extinguished and co-exists with the sovereignty of the Crown’.
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