Senate debates

Monday, 1 July 2024

Questions without Notice

Governor-General

2:42 pm

Photo of Dorinda CoxDorinda Cox (WA, Australian Greens) | Hansard source

My question is for the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Wong, representing the Prime Minister. Today Australia's newest Governor-General spoke about Australia's history being made up of three chapters: the Indigenous foundations of 65,000 years, the arrival of British institutions, and our multicultural present and future. This week, the Greens will introduce a bill for Australia's first truth and justice commission, to formally record the first chapter and ongoing injustices. The government took the path last year for constitutional reform, on the Voice to Parliament, and since then there have been crickets on implementing the other two pillars of the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Will the government support the Greens' bill on Australia's first truth and justice commission?

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