Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank member for his question, and they should know what the Voice is about, because for 10 years they were actually the government that established the committees, established the processes and produced the reports that dealt with the Voice to Parliament. Indeed, the shadow minister for Aboriginal affairs proudly said in his first speech to parliament:

In important public debates, in a time of increasing polarisation of views, we need people who can build consensus and find the middle ground. And so in more recent times, I have worked with Indigenous leaders and constitutional conservatives to find a constitutional way to make better policy about, and give due recognition of, Indigenous Australians while avoiding the downsides of inserting symbolic language into a technical document which requires interpretation by judges.

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