1967 Australian referendum (Aboriginals) The Uluru Statement from the Heart was the culmination of a national indigenous public consultation process and demanded constitutional reform on three points: voice, truth, and treaty. The main proposals of the Uluru Statement were: The final report released on the 30th June 2017 by the Referendum Council was largely supportive of the Uluru Statement. The majority of the council recommended a referendum be held to change the Constitution to establish an Indigenous “voice to parliament”. The council commented but did recommend the establishment of a Makarrata Commission which was outside its terms of reference. There was minimal debate in
Paronymic attraction Paronymic attraction In etymology, including onomastics, paronymic attraction is the distorting effect exerted on a word by one of its paronyms (that is, a quasi-homonym). Paronymic attraction is the origin of many names. The attraction can even be cross-linguistic: the resemblance between the Romanian language word "locaţie" (a space for which a rent should be paid) and the English word "location" helped a semantic shift of the former word to include the latter sense. A common phenomenon, paronymic attraction is usually expressed through the replacement of a word whose meaning is not understood by a term designating a name (common