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'Aboriginal activists and politicians have used National Sorry Day to demand the government revisit the proposals outlined in the historic Uluru statement. Western Australian Labor senator and Yawuru man Pat Dodson called for the creation of an Indigenous “voice” to parliament, saying “the aspirations that underpin the Uluru statement” would give Indigenous people greater power to address social inequality. On Saturday Gurindji woman Rosie Smiler, the granddaughter of iconic Aboriginal rights leader Vincent Lingiari, led a march ($) through prime minister Malcolm Turnbull’s eastern Sydney electorate to raise support for the Uluru statement. Turnbull rejected the Uluru statement proposals last year, saying a voice to parliament “would inevitably become seen as a third chamber of parliament”.'  (Introduction)

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