Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has vowed that the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament will not act as a third chamber - should the referendum be successful.
The Voice to Parliament was a key element of the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart and called for an elected Indigenous advisory body to the Federal Parliament.
Anthony Albanese says his government’s proposal for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament will not be a third chamber. Picture: PMO “This makes it very clear that this doesn’t change in any way the primacy of our democratically elected parliament,” he told the ABC on Sunday.
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