Senate debates

Friday, 16 June 2023

Bills

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

10:24 pm

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

WATT (—) (): No. I'm referring to the design principles that we've already gone through that will be implemented via the parliament. Again, Senator Cash, you're trying to suggest that these would be matters that a future High Court would deal with. As I've already read out to you, someone as eminent as Bret Walker, who regularly appears in the High Court, has described those sorts of suggestions as being too silly for words.

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