Tom Calma urges Indigenous support for design of voice to parliament

Chancellor of University of Canberra says constitutional recognition possible once model is resolved

Tom Calma has urged Indigenous Australians to get behind the process of co-designing a voice to parliament, and says it is possible the Morrison government could countenance constitutional recognition after a model is resolved.

Calma, the chancellor of the University of Canberra and a previous race discrimination commissioner, has been appointed with fellow prominent academic Marcia Langton to lead a new round of consultations on the voice – a First Nations representative body proposed in the Uluru statement.

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