Australian Constitution to Acknowledge Indigenous Rights?

Very interesting: Australia (which as you may recall was one of the few countries to vote against the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People) is considering changes to its constitution to "include acknowledgment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's custodianship of the land." The Aboriginal Advisory Panel of Sydney is pushing for use of the word "invasion" to describe white settlement in Australia, as the city of Sydney has already agreed to do:

Several members of the panel that convinced the Council to use the word invasion in the preamble to its corporate plan believe the same word should be included in the preamble to the constitution.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has promised a referendum to recognise indigenous Australians in the constitution, probably at the next election, and has appointed an expert panel to discuss with the community the options for constitutional change...

''I think we have to tell the truth about what happened, that's why it [the word invasion] has a rightful place in any preamble to do with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, it should be included,'' he said.

Undoubtedly there will be a lot of debate on this; the Sydney Morning Herald will be one of the papers to watch if you want to learn more (or, if you want more background, search their archives for "aboriginal").