Uluru Statement from the Heart Uluru Statement from the Heart The Uluru Statement from the Heart was released 26 May 2017 by delegates to a Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Referendum Convention held near Uluru in Central Australia. The statement calls for a ‘First Nations Voice’ in the Australian Constitution and a ‘Makarrata Commission’ to supervise a process of ‘agreement-making’ and ‘truth-telling’ between government and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The statement references the 1967 referendum which brought about changes to the Constitution of Australia to include indigenous Australians. A 16-member Referendum Council was jointly appointed on 7 December 2015 by the Prime Minister
Local attraction Local attraction While compass surveying, the magnetic needle is sometimes disturbed from its normal position under the influence of external attractive forces. Such a disturbing influence is called as local attraction. The external forces are produced by sources of local attraction which may be current carrying wire (magnetic materials) or metal objects. The term is also used to denote amount of deviation of the needle from its normal position. It mostly causes errors in observations while surveying and thus suitable methods are employed to neglect these errors. The sources of local attraction may be natural or artificial. Natural sources include