A new academic paper on the Voice has found it will likely give the Commonwealth the power to legislate, regardless of whether the Commonwealth has the power to do so, based merely on a representation that the Voice makes. Author of the paper, University of Queensland Professor of Constitutional Law Nicholas Aroney sat down with Sky News host Peta Credlin to discuss its discovery of what the Voice can do. “It was always the idea the parliament would be given the power to legislate, to regulate the Voice, in particular, its composition powers, procedures and functions,” Mr Aroney said. “However, a late change was made to the drafting of the proposal so that now it says that the parliament is to have power to make laws with respect to matters relating to the Voice. “The point is these are words of wide connecting input … so one has to ask, well what’s a matter relating to the Indigenous Voice? “It interprets the language as widely as the words used can reasonably sustain.”
A new academic paper on the Voice has found it will likely give the Commonwealth the power to legislate, regardless of whether the Commonwealth has the power to do so, based merely on a representation that the Voice makes.
Author of the paper, University of Queensland Professor of Constitutional Law Nicholas Aroney sat down with Sky News host Peta Credlin to discuss its discovery of what the Voice can do. “It was always the idea the parliament would be given the power to legislate, to regulate the Voice, in particular, its composition powers, procedures and functions,” Mr Aroney said.
“However, a late change was made to the drafting of the proposal so that now it says that the parliament is to have power to make laws with respect to matters relating to the Voice. “The point is these are words of wide connecting input … so one has to ask, well what’s a matter relating to the Indigenous Voice?
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