Speaking to the ABC's Insiders: On Background podcast, constitutional law expert Megan Davis also ruled out supporting any purely symbolic constitutional recognition for Indigenous people, and said it would be a broken promise if the Albanese government were to not proceed with establishing a Makarrata Commission.
One of the architects of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, Megan Davis , was open to not proceeding with a vote on the Voice, once polls showed it was set to fail.
Monday marks the anniversary of the failed referendum, and Ms Davis said it has been a tough week for many Indigenous Australians who are still "devastated" by the result.She said when the polls showed the Yes campaign was unlikely to be successful, her mind turned to whether it was worth proceeding.
"I would've been up for that discussion. Referendums, they can lapse — and I think there could've been better coordinated conversations about that," she said. He referred to Makarrata as a Yolngu word that means "coming together after a struggle", but Dean Parkin, the director of the Yes campaign, said there is a clear difference between a "commitment to Makarrata vs commitment to a Makarrata Commission".Ms Davis said she doesn't know exactly where the government stands on the commission, but said establishing one remains Labor Party policy.
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