Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

I'm well aware that one of the major arguments being put by the opposition against the Voice is this question of detail, but, as I would expect that Senator Cash is aware, obviously a very large amount of detail has been provided about how the Voice will operate. I suspect that many of the questions that you say you have are addressed in the design principles information booklet that the government has distributed. So to the specific question that you ask, essentially who would be eligible to serve on the Voice, members of the Voice would be Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people according to the standard three-part test. I know there were questions about that in question time this week. We're happy to take you through that, but I encourage anyone who sincerely wants more detail, as opposed to people who want to make that political argument, to refer themselves to the information booklet on the design principles, and I think they will find that many of their questions are answered.