Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney names four priorities for the proposed Voice to Parliament in a speech to the National Press Club, after growing pressure to detail how it would benefit First Nations people.
If it was anything more than an advisory body no one would ever get it to pass a referendum. If they skipped the constitution by legislating something with more teeth than it currently is the Coalition would spend now until election time campaigning against it about how it was “forced” on people instead of it being a referendum.
@PostAndRun yeah, I get that argument and see the point… I just think it needed _something_ so that a government can’t just gut it completely and claim that they’re still listening because there’s a token body…
Anyway, getting something on the books is better than having absolutely nothing.
If it was anything more than an advisory body no one would ever get it to pass a referendum. If they skipped the constitution by legislating something with more teeth than it currently is the Coalition would spend now until election time campaigning against it about how it was “forced” on people instead of it being a referendum.
@PostAndRun yeah, I get that argument and see the point… I just think it needed _something_ so that a government can’t just gut it completely and claim that they’re still listening because there’s a token body…
Anyway, getting something on the books is better than having absolutely nothing.