Letter to the editor: He did not speak for me, nor thousands more

By Meave Ramsay
Updated November 21 2017 - 3:36pm, first published 2:21pm

Our Prime Minister recently took it upon himself to speak for all Australians in summarily dismissing the recommendations of the Uluru Statement from the Heart. The recommendations in the Uluru Statement were the product of an extraordinarily sophisticated and civilized process involving consultations with the indigenous population across the whole country. It was a process of refinement and distillation to arrive at consensus on a magnificently elegant foundation for fair recognition and representation of our first nations people.

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