Senate debates

Friday, 16 June 2023

Bills

Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023; In Committee

9:11 pm

Photo of Murray WattMurray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

You might be familiar, Senator Cash, with the fact that the parliament will retain powers to make laws relating to the Voice. That, in fact, is in proposed subsection 129(iii). So that would be a matter for the democratically elected parliament that you and I are members of to decide.

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