2017年五月，原住民与托雷斯海峡岛民代表们齐聚乌鲁鲁，在全国原住民宪章大会上通过《发自肺腑的乌鲁鲁宣言》。这一宣言是13场和全澳大利亚原住民社区深刻对话的结晶。它呼吁以宪法形式在议会中包括原住民的声音，并开启签署条约、诉说真相的过程。宣言希望在澳洲原住民与澳大利亚国民之间，建立起以真相、正义和自决为基础的关系。音乐：Frank Yamma. Presented by Jennis Hsu. Source: SBS.
来自于全国各地的我们，相聚于2017年全国宪章大会，共同提出这发自肺腑的宣言：
我们的原住民与托雷斯海峡岛民部落，拥有澳洲大陆及其邻近岛屿的最初主权，并依据我们自己的法律与传统享有这片土地。自创世之日起，以我们的文化所鉴，以“太古”以来的普通法系所鉴，以超过六万年的自然科学所鉴，我们的祖先立根于此。
这片拥有主权的土地属于一种精神概念：即土地（或自然母亲）与原住民、托雷斯海峡岛民之间的祖系纽带。他们出生于此，与这片土地紧密相连。终有一日，他们将归位原处，与我们的祖先团聚。此种纽带为其拥有此土地之本，乃至为主权之本。主权从未割让或消亡，与王室主权并存。
非此为何？其人民拥有此片土地六万余载，岂可在近两百年内的短时间就消匿于世界历史？
实质性修宪及实施结构性改革，让我们相信：此古老主权将长盛不衰，使澳大利亚国家之品格更饱满完整。
就比例而言，我们为世上受最多监禁的人民。但我们不是生来犯罪的民族。我们许多的孩子早早就与家人分离，但不是因为我们不爱他们。我们的青年身陷囹圄、饱受折磨，数量之多令人发指。他们本应是我们未来的希冀。
我们所面临的这些危机，痛苦地控诉着我们问题的结构性因素。这，就是我们无力的煎熬。
我们寻求宪法改革，为我们民族赋能，为能在自己的国家享有应有的地位。只有掌握自己的命运，我们的下一代才能茁壮成长。他们将行走于两个世界；他们的文化将成为献给祖国的厚礼。
我们呼吁将原住民之声载入宪法。
“马卡拉塔”( Makarrata)是我们运动的最终目标：在苦难后团结一致。它包含我们与澳大利亚人民建立起公平、真正友谊的愿景；象征着用正义、自决为我们下一代创造更好的未来。
我们寻求建立马卡拉塔委员会，成为监督政府与原住民之间的协议进程，并讲述我们民族的历史真相。
1967年，我们被纳入人口计算；2017年，我们希望被倾听。我们离开大本营，用脚步丈量这个广袤的国家。我们邀您与我们同行，加入澳大利亚的人民运动，共创一个更美好的未来。
如需获取更多信息，请访问乌鲁鲁宣言官方网站：https://ulurustatement.org/
English version: Source: https://www.sbs.com.au/language/nitv-radio/en/podcast-episode/english-the-uluru-statement-from-the-heart/r9htuxya4
In May 2017, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander delegates came together at the First Nations National Constitutional Convention near Uluru and presented the Uluru Statement from the Heart to the Australian people. The Statement calls for a First Nations Voice to Parliament, enshrined in the constitution, and a process for agreement making (Treaty) and truth-telling. It was the culmination of 13 deliberative Regional Dialogues across Australia with First Nations communities. The Statement seeks to establish a relationship between Australia’s First Nations peoples and the Australian nation based on truth, justice and self-determination. Music by Frank Yamma. Presented by Kerri-Lee Harding. Source: SBS.
We, gathered at the 2017 National Constitutional Convention, coming from all points of the southern sky, make this statement from the heart:
Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tribes were the first sovereign Nations of the Australian continent and its adjacent islands, and possessed it under our own laws and customs. This our ancestors did, according to the reckoning of our culture, from the Creation, according to the common law from ‘time immemorial’, and according to science more than 60,000 years ago.
This sovereignty is a spiritual notion: the ancestral tie between the land, or ‘mother nature’, and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who were born therefrom, remain attached thereto, and must one day return thither to be united with our ancestors. This link is the basis of the ownership of the soil, or better, of sovereignty. It has never been ceded or extinguished and co-exists with the sovereignty of the Crown.
How could it be otherwise? That peoples possessed a land for sixty millennia and this sacred link disappears from world history in merely the last two hundred years?
With substantive constitutional change and structural reform, we believe this ancient sovereignty can shine through as a fuller expression of Australia’s nationhood.
Proportionally, we are the most incarcerated people on the planet. We are not an innately criminal people. Our children are aliened from their families at unprecedented rates. This cannot be because we have no love for them. And our youth languish in detention in obscene numbers. They should be our hope for the future.
These dimensions of our crisis tell plainly the structural nature of our problem. This is the torment of our powerlessness.
We seek constitutional reforms to empower our people and take a rightful place in our own country. When we have power over our destiny our children will flourish. They will walk in two worlds and their culture will be a gift to their country.
We call for the establishment of a First Nations Voice enshrined in the Constitution. Makarrata is the culmination of our agenda: the coming together after a struggle. It captures our aspirations for a fair and truthful relationship with the people of Australia and a better future for our children based on justice and self-determination.
We seek a Makarrata Commission to supervise a process of agreement-making between governments and First Nations and truth-telling about our history.
In 1967 we were counted, in 2017 we seek to be heard. We leave base camp and start our trek across this vast country. We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future.
