The Prime Minister has ruled out holding the Voice to parliament referendum on one very important day in September.
Australians are expected to have their say between September and December in the first referendum of this century.Voters will be asked whether they approve of altering the Constitution to “recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice”.
Speaking at the Garma Festival in north Arnhem Land on Friday, Mr Albanese said he wouldn’t be using the annual conference as a platform to announce the date of the upcoming referendum. “I said there would be draft legislation in March and there was. I said there would be a parliamentary committee process and there was.“A referendum has to take place between two months and 33 days and six months of the Bill being passed, so that takes it to between September and December.”He explained the date would be formally announced once consultation had finished.
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