'An answer to the race question'

Professor Megan Davis and Marcia Langton write in The Australian (21 January 2011) about how they answered the question posed to them by Julia Gillard in 2010: How could the Indigenous peoples be recognised in the Australian Constitution? Please see summary below:

The answer is largely a technical solution, a matter not understood by those who have rushed to the media before reading the report, handed to the Prime Minister only last Thursday.

Among our terms of reference was the proviso that our answers be legally sound. The report of the expert panel is about 300 pages in length and it examines in detail the problem posed to the panel by the Prime Minister.

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