In 2017, the Referendum Council held a consultation process for "First Nations" in Australia, and the result was the Uluru Statement from the Heart. The Uluru Statement is a proposal to decolonise Australia as a British colonial territory.

There has been some criticism about the Referendum Council process. But the process has been very carefully designed to meet international  precedent for decolonisation. The Referendum Council have used another successful decolonisation consultation as a benchmark - the Musyawarah consultation that led West Papua to become part of Indonesia.