More than 250 indigenous leaders met in Uluru to discuss how to best recognise Australia's first inhabitants.
Crucially, they rejected the idea of constitutional recognition - an idea that was criticised as merely symbolic.
Instead the delegates called for a constitutionally enshrined "voice" in parliament and a path to a treaty.
The statement - called the Uluru Statement from the Heart - came after three days of talks at the First Nations Convention.
