A pathway to consensus on Indigenous recognition

By Michael Gordon
Updated April 19 2015 - 4:13pm, first published April 18 2015 - 12:15am
<i>Illustration: Matt Golding</i>
<i>Illustration: Matt Golding</i>
Then Opposition Leader Tony Abbott with Noel Pearson, director of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership, and his son Charlie. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen / Fairfax
Then Opposition Leader Tony Abbott with Noel Pearson, director of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership, and his son Charlie. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen / Fairfax
Then Opposition Leader Tony Abbott with Noel Pearson, director of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen / Fairfax
Then Opposition Leader Tony Abbott with Noel Pearson, director of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen / Fairfax

Let's take a glass-half-full look at the push to recognise Indigenous Australians in the country's founding document and, in the words of Tony Abbott, finally "atone for the omissions and for the hardness of heart of our forebears".

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