Indigenous Law Centre, UNSW

Advocacy in support of the Uluru Statement from the Heart

September 2020 to December 2023

The Uluru Statement from the Heart is an invitation from First Nations to “walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future.” It was issued in May 2017 after several years of consultation with First Nation communities.

 The Uluru Statement from the Heart calls for structural reform that involves the constitutional enshrinement of a First Nations Voice to Parliament and sequenced next, the establishment of a Makaratta Commission to supervise treaty-making and truth-telling processes between First Nations and the Australian government at all levels of governance.

 The Uluru Dialogue has the mandate from elders, traditional owners and First Nation community representatives who participated in the regional dialogues to undertake the work to progress the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and are committed to maintaining and growing mob consensus through ongoing national and regional dialogues. The UNSW Indigenous Law Centre provides infrastructure and administrative support to the Uluru Dialogue and undertakes the public legal education and academic work that must underpin law reform and the Voice to Parliament. The Broadley Trust is one among a number of philanthropic donors who support the Uluru Statement from the Heart in this way.