Senate debates

Friday, 16 June 2023

Bills

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

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

Senator Cash, you might have been part of a government that wouldn't listen to Indigenous people or a body like a voice, but I'm certainly part of a government that intends to. We won't necessarily accept everything the Voice recommends but we'd certainly be pretty keen to listen. As I say, the point of the Voice is that it's about listening, just as we listen to lots of other people out there, and I don't reckon we should treat Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people any differently. Maybe if we listen—

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