Senate debates

Wednesday, 22 March 2023

Bills

Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Amendment Bill 2022; In Committee

6:34 pm

Photo of Lidia ThorpeLidia Thorpe (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

For those First Nations people who turn up to the booth who are not enrolled to vote—they come with their Medicare card and whatever ID and say, 'We would like to vote on something that will assimilate us into the colonial Constitution'—what is the government doing about those people? How many First Nations people who are not enrolled are you going to turn away on the day?

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