Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has not ruled out legislating the Voice to Parliament should Australians vote to reject enshrining the body in the Constitution.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has not ruled out legislating the Voice to Parliament should Australians vote to reject enshrining the body in the Constitution, prompting accusations from Opposition Leader Peter Dutton that he was being tricky with the public.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has kept the door open to legislating a Voice to Parliament should the referendum fail.But he rejected the assertion that he would be ignoring the will of voters if the government proceeded to legislate the body in the wake of a failed national vote, suggesting the two outcomes were separate, likening the scenario to “confusing rugby league and rugby union”.
He accused the government of trying to give “moral cover” to the Voice proposal by linking it to constitutional recognition, describing it as a “pretty cheap political trick”.to answer two questions of principle - whether he supported constitutional recognition, and whether accepted outcomes were better for Indigenous people when they were consulted about matters that affected them - arguing if he answered yes to both, he supported a constitutionally enshrined Voice.
“That is [people would not be] able to go to court to say, ‘We weren’t asked about x policy, we should have been’ - that will not be allowed. And that’s why you have legislation before the Parliament that will determine the nature of that detail,” Albanese said.
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