Uluru Statement from the Heart Northern Territory. The Statement was also on display alongside musician John Butler at the Woodford folk festival in Queensland. Makarrata is a Yolngu word "describing a process of conflict resolution, peacemaking and justice". 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
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