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The Prime Minister insists he’s willing to take a risk on a referendum, to ‘uplift our whole nation’

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wants Australians to consider a draft question — released by the government this weekend — asking whether the constitution should be changed to create an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

He told ABC’s Insiders program that a referendum could be as powerful as the national apology for the Stolen Generations and the Mabo decision.

“This is an opportunity for us to demonstrate our maturity as a nation, to uplift our whole nation. And I’m very hopeful that we can do so,” he said.

“I recognize that it’s a risk, but if you don’t try then you have already not succeeded.”

A Voice to Parliament, created via a referendum, was the key recommendation of hundreds of Aboriginal people at Uluṟu in 2017.

There is now a push from the Opposition and the Greens for more detail on what role and function the body would have.

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