The Real Uluru and Voice Gang, The Lobby Group or the Coup Members - Take your Pick

Many Australians had deep suspicions about the genuiness of The Uluru Statement and The Voice process prior to it being defeated in the referendum of 2023.

The Australian public were told the Voice represented the voices of all Indigenous peoples from across Australia.

But many of us feared otherwise.

And now a 2016 photograph has emerged to support our suspicions that the whole Uluru Statement and Voice proposal was just a political con-job by a lobby group of well connected activists, working together unseen in the background. The photograph (Figure 1) shows this secret group meeting just one year prior to the publication of the Uluru Statement from the Heart in 2017

Readers will notice the prominence of the convicted and jailed Geoff Clark in the front row with his “buddies.” Although we are not making any accusations regarding illicit behaviour by any other people in this room, one would have thought that the “optics” are not good for anyone to be seen to be so closely associated with Geoff Clark. Despite attempts by the Aboriginal lobby group to distance themselves from Clark today in 2024 (See Paige Taylor in The Australian : Geoff Clark: How his crimes and his ego poisoned Indigenous affairs all the way up to the Voice), Clark was always believed to have been a major influence on how Aboriginal politics was done in this country.

From what Dark Emu Exposed has been told, Clark was fully involved in the formulation of the Uluru Statement from the Heart and was in the final convention in Alice Springs - he did not walk out as some try to claim today. We understand he is also a signatory to the final canvas document. [Update 19 Jan 2025 - One keen eyed reader has found Geoff Clark’s signature on the canvas! - see Figure 5 below]

Perhaps Paige Taylor could do some real investigative journalism and locate and publish ALL the signatories to the Uluru statement from the Heart to see if Clark’s signature appears on it? - we have tried but failed (see Figure 2).

And perhaps she can find out where it is? If PM Albanese thought the Uluru Statement was such an important ‘gift’ to our nation, why isn’t it displayed somewhere where the public can read it and see who signed our ‘gift-card’?

Figure 1 - The gang’s all here:1. Roy Ah See, 2. Rachel Perkins, 3. John Christoferson, 4. ?, 5. Sean Gordon, 6. Geoff Scott, 7. Dean Parkin, 8. Tanya Hosch, 9. Pat Anderson, 10.?, 11.? 12.?, 13. Rod Little, 14. Jackie Huggins, 15. Sol Bellear, 16.? , 17. Dawn Casey, 18.? 19. Sandy Davies, 20. Terry O’Shane, 21. ? 22. Geoff Clark, 23. Michael Mansell, 24. Noel Pearson, 25. Les Malezer, 26. Kirstie Parker, former editor of Koori Mail, originally from Adelaide/SA, 27. Megan Davis & 28. Nicole Watson, lawyer/academic (Ed. email me the names of the unknown identities if you recognise them

Source: (supplied) - The photograph is said to have been taken in 2016 at an exclusive leaders meeting held in a private room at the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence (NCIE), the multi-million dollar facility built on the former site of Redfern Public School. This photo is said to record one of the invitation-only sessions put on by the Referendum Council that was created in 2015 under an agreement between Prime Minister Turnbull and Opposition Leader Shorten.

Part of the reason why The Voice Referendum failed in 2023 was that the Australian people felt that there was not enough discussion about the detail of what the real consequences of the Voice would be. It just felt to many of us that we weren’t being told the whole story. It was as if there was some carefully managed, `secrecy’-pact in place in case too much detail would frighten off the voters.

Even a simple request as to who were the 250 odd people who had signed the Uluru Statement was stonewalled by Minister Linda Burney (See Figure 2). If it was such a great document, and the signatories were so ‘proud’ of their ‘gift’ to the Australian people, why didn’t they ever let us see for ourselves and let us read the final signed canvas?

Figure 2 - In an effort to find out who these 250 signatories were, one of our collaborators, Robert, sent an email to the Hon Linda Burney, Minister for Indigenous Australians, on 3 May 2022 seeking information as to, '‘who wrote the Uluru Statement from the Heart and who signed it.”

Robert’s thinking was that if this ‘generous offer’ of the Uluru Statement was being given to us, the Australian people, in effect as a binding contract for us to alter our Constitution, it was only proper for us to know who these people were and who had prepared the ‘Uluru contract’.

Robert quite sensibly spoke of the analogy that one wouldn’t sign any contract unless one knew who the counter-party was and who was behind the creation of the contract.

A response from the minister was finally recieved some 13 months later on 13 June 2023 - see Figure 2 [We know ministerial offices are incredibly busy but this 13 month response time does seem a little tardy for a modern nation state such as Australia. Ed].

Unfortunately, we are none the wiser as the Minister seems to be invoking Privacy Laws by advising us that the ‘majority of the signatories were private citizens’, although someone in her office (or the Minister herself?) did attempt to reinforce the powerfulness of the Statement by handwriting on the typed letter, “Many hundreds of people signed the Statement”.

Figure 3 - Uluru statement from the Heart Canvas

Figure 4 - Noel Pearson with signed canvas before artwork was added

Figure 5 - One sharp-eyed reader has located Geoff Clark’s signature to right of word ``HEART”. Full easy to search image of the Uluru canvas here