Senate debates

Friday, 16 June 2023

Bills

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

10:40 pm

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

That would be another matter that the parliament could decide and that the Voice could decide. We're not going to be prescriptive about this. Just as in the current Australian Constitution, the section relating to the creation of the High Court doesn't say that the High Court must publish written reasons or verbal reasons. It leaves it to the parliament and the High Court to work those kinds of things out. So we can trust the Voice in the parliament to do the same in relation to the Voice.

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