Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt can no longer guarantee legislation for an Indigenous Voice will pass Parliament before the next election | CameronGooley
. But the Coalition is divided over the proposal and Mr Wyatt faces a battle to get it through his party room.He is also running out of time to get the legislation through both houses of Parliament, with only eight parliamentary sitting weeks scheduled before the end of the year.- as per the calls of the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart.Credit:Prime Minister Scott Morrison is preparing to unveil the federal government’s Closing the Gap implementation plan this week.
“There will always be a theme on education, and the overarching one that is important in all of this is that we have to do this with Aboriginal people,” he said. “The Aboriginal community will start to ask some very strong questions, the media will certainly cover those stories of failure, as they’ve done with the Closing the Gap national reporting which has embarrassed Commonwealth governments and has embarrassed Australia internationally,” Mr Wyatt said.
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