Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has cast doubt on the Commonwealth’s role in future treaty negotiations and appears to have ruled out doing so in this term as he faces pressure to explain his full reconciliation plans.
in a broader agenda involving a treaty that could include reparations - the latest tactic in the opposition’s campaign to sway voters in the referendum.whether he supported a treaty, Albanese continually stressed the upcoming referendum was about nothing more than the creation of the Voice advisory body and recognising first Australians in the constitution.
“Well where does it say that? It doesn’t even say that in the Uluru Statement from the Heart. It doesn’t say that, it doesn’t speak about the Commonwealth negotiating treaties. It doesn’t say that,” he said. Albanese expressed hope Australians would back a referendum that is core to his government’s first-term agenda.
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