Senate debates

Friday, 16 June 2023

Bills

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

10:45 pm

Photo of Michaelia CashMichaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

Again, with all due respect, you're actually asking the Australian people to vote on this. The Australian people don't have the luxury of actually knowing it has the same meaning as elsewhere in the Constitution, unless you're advising the Australian people to go and look up the Constitution and then go and work out what it means. This is their opportunity to be able to go to one document and to have questions asked and answered. So I again ask you: does it include executive agencies like the National Indigenous Australians Agency, and could the Voice make representations to the National Indigenous Australians Agency?

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