Calls for an Indigenous voice in parliament during NT's Garma Festival
ill Shorten (centre) at Garma Festival and senator Malarndirri McCarthy, Warren Snowdon, Senator Pat Dodson, Deputy NT Labor leader Lynne Walker Source: AAP
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has refused to give a firm commitment to the call for an Indigenous body in Parliament, warning that Australians are "constitutionally conservative".The call for an Indigenous body to represent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in Parliament was a key recommendation of the Uluru statement delivered in May.
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