The Referendum Council have deliberately mesmerized the First Nations delegates in a glamour environment to coerce them into agreeing to an ambiguous outline of what they want and thus allowing the council virtually a freehand in the delivery of the final report to government.
The political confrontation that occurred at the National Convention was caused by the very apparent stacking of the meeting by the organisers (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Studies, AIATSIS), no doubt supported by the Referendum Council with a budget of hundreds of million dollars.
Alison Hunt spokesperson for the Anangu Tribal Elders explains the request to change the name of the 'Uluru Statement'. "I was told by my Elders and the Board here to talk to the radio to get the message out there to take the name off the Uluru Statement From The Heart ... people have to get their own name, not using Uluru." (SBS footage Dec 2017)
What was visually clear during the whole process was the apparent divide between members of the Referendum Council.
For some of the elected delegates it was clear that when they were talking about issues that were not supportive of the Referendum Council's ambitions, Noel Pearson and/or Pat Anderson were constantly leaving the meeting to have counsel with Mark Leibler, the Zionist Co-chair of the Referendum Council. It became clear that he is the puppet-master ... to manufacture the appearance of consent to constitutional reform for First Nations Peoples to be assimilated into the colonial constitution of the occupying power.
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