@Frew thanks, I’ve read Natalie Cromb’s article. Almost linked to it myself. The reason I linked to the NITV article is the video embedded with statements by the ‘delegates’ who walked out as to why. I.e. original source.
I find your attempt at objectivity endearing. 
I have been following the debacle at the Uluru convention since the start. This is not about taking sides. It’s about recognising process has been corrupt. Politics is never objective, it’s always led by interests and motives, no matter how evidence-based you are. You are taking sides just as much as I am if you endorse the process and outcome of the Uluru convention. The delegates being Indigenous doesn’t make the government’s framing of the issue immune to critique. I see astroturfing campaigns very critically. Nobody at the convention bought the symbolic ‘recognition’ in the constitution as by any means sufficient. That they went and pushed for far more far-reaching constitutional changes speaks for them. The government’s silence on this outcome has been deafening, indicating that it was an unexpected outcome. It was not a compromise: all working groups there wanted treaty. https://twitter.com/PatsKarvelas/status/867338371579822081 I don’t know who came up with the ‘parliamentary voice’ idea.
If you think you can rope me into the flawed policy development process again, Ima have to draft you for implementing the liquid democracy work I’m supporting. I’ve been translating for your benefit: What is real Liquid Feedback? (more to come). Perhaps the congress can conference-call the author in so she can introduce her work?
But beware, if you draft me I might argue against having a policy at all at this stage. This is not our area of expertise and I am sceptical that our process for policy development will come up with a decent policy that doesn’t just feels good to us in only a month.
@jedb Genocide is intentional action to destroy a people (usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group) in whole or in part. Cultural genocide includes “Any form of assimilation or integration by other cultures or ways of life imposed on them by legislative, administrative or other measures”