When speaking of their victory in the Federal election on the
night of 21 May 2022, the Foreign Minister-elect and Prime
Minster-elect both gave an indication of how their Government would
approach indigenous recognition and representation nationally, in
just the 3rd sentences of their respective speeches
– Penny Wong's,
"tonight we can take that step forward to fulfilling...
to fulfilling the promise of the Uluru Statement From the
Heart1.";
And Anthony Albanese's
"And on behalf of the Australian Labor party, I commit
to the Uluru Statement from the Heart in
full2".
The time that has passed between the Uluru Statement of the
Heart being announced and the new Government's election is
almost 5 years exactly. The Statement was released on 26 May 2017,
as the result of the First Nations National Constitutional
Convention, itself the culmination of the Referendum Council, which
was jointly created by then Prime Minster Malcolm Turnbull, and
then Opposition
