The Prime Minister has attended the annual Garma Festival at the Gulkula ceremonial site on Gove Peninsula, NT between August 4 - 7.
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00:00 The Uluru Statement from the Heart
00:03 holds for every Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child.
00:09 As it says so memorably, when we have power over our destiny,
00:15 our children will flourish.
00:17 They will walk in two worlds, and their culture
00:21 will be a gift to their country.
00:24 Think about those words, a gift to their country.
00:31 Even in expressing the most fundamental and elemental hope
00:35 every parent has for their child,
00:39 the chance to flourish, the opportunity for a better life,
00:44 even in that moment, there is still
00:47 that spirit of generosity to others,
00:50 the offer of a gift to us all, the understanding
00:57 that both our worlds have so much to gain from listening
01:01 to each other, learning from one another, working together,
01:07 and the genius of the Uluru Statement from the Heart,
01:12 and all the elders and leaders and Aboriginal and Torres
01:15 Strait Islander people who poured their hopes
01:18 and aspirations and effort and goodwill into it,
01:22 is that it doesn't just articulate the noble goal
01:26 of a better future.
01:28 It offers Australia the practical means
01:32 and the path to achieve it.
01:35 My government supports the Uluru Statement from the Heart
01:39 and its call for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
01:44 voice in our constitution, which is what
01:47 the coming referendum is about, a vehicle
01:51 for real and practical progress, a committee
01:55 of Indigenous Australians chosen by Indigenous Australians
02:01 to work for Indigenous Australians
02:04 in every part of our nation, the regions and remote communities,
02:10 big cities, and the Torres Strait Islands,
02:13 giving parliament and government the advice
02:16 to drive better results in health, education, employment,
02:22 and housing.
02:24 That's what the voice is about.
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