Host a Screening of Living Black: Never Meant To Happen

In 2017 Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull rejected the Indigenous Voice to Parliament in the Uluru Statement. So how did Australia find itself voting on a Referendum that was never meant to happen?

Published 10 April 2024 4:19pm

Updated 11 April 2024 5:26pm

By NITV, SBS

Source: NITV

In 2017, former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull famously rejected the Indigenous voice to parliament as proposed in the Uluru statement, saying that it was neither desirable nor capable of winning acceptance at a referendum. So, how did Australia find itself voting on a referendum that was never meant to happen? Karla Grant takes a look back at how we got to this point and what comes next after this historic result.

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