Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt will today pledge to ‘bring forward a consensus option’ for a proposal to recognise Indigenous people in the constitution within three years, the ABC is reporting.
In a speech to the National Press Club today, Mr Wyatt is set to announce the Government will design the model with First Australians, allocating more than $7 million to the process and will pledge to work with Labor opposition counterpart Linda Burney, describing her as ‘integral’ to the process.
The announcement comes as a significant step forward for Indigenous activists, two years after former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull rejected the proposals of the landmark 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart.