Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says an Indigenous voice enshrined in the Constitution “cannot be silenced” as he reveals the question he will put to a referendum.
He said the Indigenous Voice to Parliament is not a matter of “special treatment” but about consulting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people on the decisions that affect them.
“Writing the voice into the Constitution means a willingness to listen won’t depend on who is in government or who is prime minister,” he said at the Garma Festival in north-east Arnhem Land. “The Voice will exist and endure outside the ups and downs of election cycles and the weakness of short-term politics.
“It will be an unflinching source of advice and accountability – not a third chamber, not a rolling veto, not a blank cheque. “But a body with the perspective and the power and the platform, to tell the government and the parliament the truth about what is working and what is not.”
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