Linda Burney, who'll be the first Aboriginal woman to be Indigenous affairs minister, says Australia is ready to embrace the change required to create a First Nations body to advise parliament rachelclun australiavotes
Australia’s incoming Indigenous Affairs Minister hopes the country can have a referendum on an Indigenous Voice to parliament as soon as May next year and says it will be an immediate priority of the Labor government.
The first thing Prime Minister-elect Anthony Albanese did in his acceptance speech on Saturday night was acknowledge Indigenous Australians.Earlier in the election campaign, Albanese said he wanted a referendum in Labor’s first term of government, but would not commit to a timeline., believes Labor can bring the Voice to parliament within the next term of government, but said the country needed a referendum date.
Burney said many crossbenchers had already indicated they would support the Voice, and she believed the country is ready.
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