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.
“The referendum is about whether we should change the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing a body called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.”
So a bit of a difference in scope… one’s about constitutional recognition (with a side of a government advisory body) and the other is a government agency.
It’s a bit of a shame that everyone’s removed about the ill-defined government body part of it (including me, I’ll admit it…) and we’re all glossing over the constitutional recognition aspect of it.
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From the NIAA website about the voice:
“The referendum is about whether we should change the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing a body called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.”
So a bit of a difference in scope… one’s about constitutional recognition (with a side of a government advisory body) and the other is a government agency.
It’s a bit of a shame that everyone’s removed about the ill-defined government body part of it (including me, I’ll admit it…) and we’re all glossing over the constitutional recognition aspect of it.