Malarndirri McCarthy (NT, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Indigenous Australians) Share this | Hansard source

Thanks for the question. There certainly has been advice from the referendum engagement group and the referendum working group in terms of the need for gender balance, and it is the critical part of the design principles. It is something that many of those on the working group and the engagement group have wanted to know about, and also as I've travelled across the Territory people have wanted to know more about that side of it, and we've ensured that it's in the design principles. And if we are successful in the referendum we would want to see that carried through.