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". Image: Labor leader Bill Shorten (centre) at Garma Festival flanked by Senator Malarndirri McCarthy (left), Warren Snowdon, Senator Pat Dodson (2nd right) and Deputy NT Labor leader Lynne Walker. AAP.
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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