Senate debates

Friday, 16 June 2023

Bills

Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023; In Committee

9:31 pm

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

These are all matters for the democratically elected parliament. The government has been very clear that the mode of operation of the Voice, the structure of the Voice and the matters that it can provide advice on—any number of things—are things that a future democratically elected parliament may make decisions to alter. That's how democracy works. Where we have got a clear intention, we've set that out in those design principles, but, beyond that, they will all be matters for a democratically elected parliament to decide.

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