Former prime minister Tony Abbott has emerged as a chief critic of the Voice, suggesting it would have veto-like power over the parliament and leave the government vulnerable to legal challenges.
before a national vote, which the government has indicated it would like to hold before the 2025 election.
“This attempt to try and talk it up into a third house of parliament again is, and always was, nonsense. All it can do is make representations,” Twomey said. “It’s up to parliament to decide how this body is comprised and what its powers and functions are,” Twomey said.newspaper last week, Abbott argued the Voice would complicate the legislative process and “invite judicial interventions on how much weight might be given to the view of the Voice versus that of the parliament”.There is emerging discord within Coalition ranks over how the Voice would work, with Northern Territory senator.
Professor Cheryl Saunders, a constitutional law expert from Melbourne University, also backed this view, saying: “There clearly has been an effort to try and find the right sort of wording that captures the idea of advice or recommendation without making it mandatory for it to be adopted.”
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