Abbott calls summit to break recognition impasse

By Michael Gordon
Updated May 27 2015 - 12:23am, first published May 26 2015 - 11:45pm
Prime Minister Tony Abbott says the summit will be an important opportunity for him and Opposition Leader  Shorten to hear 'the views of a range of Indigenous Australians as our country contemplates change'. Photo: Andrew Meares
Prime Minister Tony Abbott says the summit will be an important opportunity for him and Opposition Leader Shorten to hear 'the views of a range of Indigenous Australians as our country contemplates change'. Photo: Andrew Meares
Prime Minister Tony Abbott says the summit will be an important opportunity for him and Opposition Leader  Shorten to hear 'the views of a range of Indigenous Australians as our country contemplates change'. Photo: Andrew Meares
Prime Minister Tony Abbott says the summit will be an important opportunity for him and Opposition Leader Shorten to hear 'the views of a range of Indigenous Australians as our country contemplates change'. Photo: Andrew Meares
Prime Minister Tony Abbott says the summit will be an important opportunity for him and Opposition Leader  Shorten to hear 'the views of a range of Indigenous Australians as our country contemplates change'. Photo: Andrew Meares
Prime Minister Tony Abbott says the summit will be an important opportunity for him and Opposition Leader Shorten to hear 'the views of a range of Indigenous Australians as our country contemplates change'. Photo: Andrew Meares
Prime Minister Tony Abbott says the summit will be an important opportunity for him and Opposition Leader  Shorten to hear 'the views of a range of Indigenous Australians as our country contemplates change'. Photo: Andrew Meares
Prime Minister Tony Abbott says the summit will be an important opportunity for him and Opposition Leader Shorten to hear 'the views of a range of Indigenous Australians as our country contemplates change'. Photo: Andrew Meares

The Prime Minister has called a bipartisan summit of Indigenous leaders for July 6 to discuss the timing and wording of the referendum for the recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the constitution.

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