Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Indigenous Affairs Minister Linda Burney will visit the Torres Strait on Thursday to 'engage with Australians' on the Voice to Parliament. Here's how the Voice could shape the future of Australia.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Indigenous Affairs Minister Linda Burney will visit the Torres Strait on Thursday to"engage with Australians" on the Voice to Parliament. Here's how the Voice could shape the future of Australia.
Mr Albanese and Ms Burney will be visiting the Torres Strait on Thursday to hold further discussions with the community members about the Voice.In her first speech to parliament, new Northern Territory Country Liberal Party Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price said the Voice is a “symbolic gesture”, which will not empower Indigenous Australians.
Megan Davis – one of the authors of the Statement and professor of constitutional law at the University of NSW – read out the Statement for the first time in its history at the 2017 First Nations National Constitutional Convention at Uluru.READ MORE“Currently in Australia’s legal and political system, First Nations [people] have very little, if any, influence on laws and policies that are passed or written [and] that impact upon our communities,” she said.
Professor of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne, Marcia Langton, was appointed by former minister for Indigenous Australians, Ken Wyatt, as the co-chair of a senior advisory group of the Voice’s design process. “In order to have a very formal say on bills, we [recommend] a special committee in Parliament … written advice of the Voice would go in order to be read by all the members of parliament,” Professor Langton said.
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