Lidia Thorpe (Victoria, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

My question is for the Minister representing the Attorney-General. I have repeatedly asked the government to provide the legal advice they received around the impacts of the Voice to Parliament on the sovereignty of the First Peoples of this land. I was directed to the Referendum Working Group statement from February this year, which simply stated: 'All members of the expert group agreed that the draft provision would not affect the sovereignty of any group or body.' Given that my repeated requests for this directly to the minister remain unanswered, can you please provide me with the definition of 'sovereignty' that was used for this assessment?