The supposed torchbearers of the reconciliation project have played a significant role in platforming and promoting Aboriginal nationalism. It is relevant to ask to what extent the resilience of this ideology, writ large in the Uluru Statement and remote-area referendum results, is due to the reconciliation process itself

It’s clear from the words on the cover of Megan Davis and Pat Anderson's newly published insider account of the road to the Voice referendum-- The authorised story of the community campaign that changed Australia -- that their book was conceived in happier times for the ‘Yes’ campaign. That would be before it became expedient to pretend the Uluru Statement is but a single page

“History is calling”, or so the leaders of the Uluru […]

That Uluru delegates cited international jurist Fouad Ammoun’s opinion on the sovereignty of West Sahara is passing strange. Much easier to grasp is their excision of the implication that non-indigenous Australians are not entitled to own land here. Such candour would have been electoral poison, especially in light of a provenance that owes much to Zaire's dictator Mobutu Sese Seko