Step to honour our first people (fwd link)

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Step to honour our first people

Michael Gordon
December 9, 2011
AUS

AUSTRALIANS will be asked to change the constitution to recognise
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and languages, prohibit
racial discrimination and remove the last vestiges of racism in the
nation's founding document under a blueprint approved yesterday.

An expert panel appointed by the Gillard government has proposed that
recognition of indigenous Australians be attached to a new power to
legislate for the advancement of the original Australians, their
languages and their culture.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/national/step-to-honour-our-first-people-20111208-1olhc.html#ixzz1fzCll6Vb