The calls for a Voice are a plain attempt to control Indigenous lives - a huge waste of time on the part of the new government and a hypocritical one at that, writes former Labor Party President Warren Mundine.
The assumption that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people don’t already have a voice to Parliament, or that Indigenous voices are limited, is ridiculous.The federal government already has the power to create an Indigenous ‘voice’ without embedding it into the constitution, writes Warren Mundine. Picture: Supplied
I would argue the loudest voices are from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people themselves who communicate all the different viewpoints within our communities. I don’t understand why it needs to be in the Constitution at all, and I haven’t been convinced by any argument on this so far. Constitutional amendments are usually to give the Commonwealth some power it doesn’t already have and rightly needs.
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