Senate debates

Friday, 16 June 2023

Bills

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

10:58 pm

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

tor CASH (—) (): That actually is fantastic, but my colleague Senator Nampijinpa Price has again joined me in the chamber. I will start this line of questioning and then let my colleague Senator Nampijinpa Price pursue it in more detail. You referred to your previous answer. In other words, I have no answers in relation to the Reserve Bank, Airservices Australia et cetera. The fact that I raised these questions apparently means that I'm indulging in a scare campaign, which I have to say on half of the Australian people I personally find offensive. I will go to section 129(ii):

(ii) the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice may make representations to the Parliament and the Executive Government of the Commonwealth …

We can't establish anything further in relation to what that means. But what you just said was that you wanted to clarify that it was on matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, so my first question to you is this: what are matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples?

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