“History is calling”, or so the leaders of the Uluru campaign to enshrine a First Nations Voice in the Constitution tell us. The slogan is calculated to exploit the ignorance of Australian history so diligently cultivated by our schools and universities in recent decades. Ironically, in drafting the “Statement from the Heart” in 2017, the Uluru delegates fell victim to their own ignorance of history, in ways that fatally undermine the document’s moral force. The Statement quotes or paraphrases four men the Uluru delegates considered to have made a significant contribution to the Aboriginal rights movement: anthropologist Bill Stanner, Labor…