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

I really can't add to my previous answer. As I foreshadowed, I was expecting us to start getting into all sorts of preposterous examples about possible arms of executive government, but, well and truly before we get to that point, I'm not going to get into whether this is or isn't and what hypotheticals might exist. All I can say, as I've said before, is that the term 'executive government of the Commonwealth' in the proposed constitutional wording has the same meaning as elsewhere in the Constitution, and, just as Australia has survived with the Australian Constitution since 1901 with that working definition, I have no doubt that we are capable of doing the same in relation to the Voice.