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She added that a constitutional body is what was requested in the Uluru Statement.
Burney said the process of developing the proposed Voice had been a "rigorous and comprehensive process". However, he admitted the Liberals will not ask the government to split the two proposals into separate questions in the referendum, meaning Australians will only be given the option of voting on the one question later this year.
Former Liberal MP Ken Wyatt, who became the first Indigenous person to be Indigenous Australians minister when he held the portfolio during the Morrison government, quit the party over its opposition to the Voice. In Victoria, the First Peoples' Assembly, elected in 2019, advocates for Indigenous issues to the government.What happens next and what will you need to do?A referendum needs the majority of people and the majority of states to vote in favour of a Yes-No proposal.Albanese has said that if the referendum succeeds, the government will propose legislation for the Voice this parliamentary term.
How could it be otherwise? That peoples possessed a land for sixty millennia and this sacred link disappears from world history in merely the last two hundred years?
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