There is no done deal on recognition, say Aboriginal MPs

By Michael Gordon
Updated March 22 2017 - 3:18pm, first published 3:11pm
Portrait of Senator Pat Dodson at Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday 15 September 2016. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen (Photo for feature by Fergus Hunter)
Portrait of Senator Pat Dodson at Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday 15 September 2016. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen (Photo for feature by Fergus Hunter)

Australia's highest-profile Aboriginal politicians have emphatically rejected claims they have settled on a minimalist model for recognition in the constitution, well before an Indigenous constitutional convention assembles at Uluru to debate the referendum question.

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