Exclusive: Wyatt finds Voice on Indigenous referendum | jamesmassola LisaVisentin
But Wyatt said “there are a lot of Coalition members that do support it”.Asked what his message was to Coalition opponents of the Voice, Wyatt said “no government in Australia has provided continuity of advisory structures to Indigenous Australians”.
“We can’t risk holding a referendum that proceeds to be unsuccessful. That would be a disaster for reconciliation in this country,” Stevens said. “What the Leeser-Dodson [2018 parliamentary] report [on constitutional recognition] said is that the Voice will be representative. The point I was attempting to make was, in fact, that there is obviously – as the prime minister has pointed out – consultations, particularly with First Nations people, that need to be had about the way in which a Voice would be constituted,” Burney told the ABC on Monday.
Pearson, an Indigenous lawyer, academic and land rights activist, said Australia needed to come together behind the proposal. Professors Megan Davis and Pat Anderson, who co-chaired the Uluru Dialogue, which produced the Uluru Statement from the Heart that proposed a Voice model, both said more detail on the proposed model would need to be released before the referendum was held. But it would not be necessary for the model to be finalised or the draft legislation prepared.
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