Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Shadow Minister for Veterans' Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to say that if you're born in Tamworth in a hospital bed next to someone else, another child who has been born, then you would expect that both of you would have the same rights. You both go back to the same town and live in houses next door to one another. But this proposed constitutional change, the so-called voice, says that one person is endowed by the Constitution with a greater proportion of rights than the person born in the bed beside them. This is something I think should be inalienable. It's an anathema that we should be defining people in our Constitution on the premise of race, religion or creed.

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