Details about a proposed Indigenous Voice to parliament will not be known before a referendum on the issue, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says, arguing he does not want a repeat of the failed 1999 republic referendum | swrighteconomy
be put to all Australians in a referendum: “Do you support an alteration to the Constitution that establishes an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice?”
“What I am not going to do [is] to go down the cul-de-sac of getting into every detail because that is not a recipe for success.“The legislation of the structure of the Voice won’t happen before the referendum,” he said. Albanese said including the Voice in the Constitution meant the overriding principle would remain intact, although how it actually worked could change over time.
But Albanese said Indigenous Australians had already waited a long time before getting to this point.
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