Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

The bill talks about the representations that can be made. They include representations about any matter within the executive power of the Commonwealth such as law reform, policy development decisions made under specific legislation and other matters of government administration. My question is: how would the Voice fulfil its constitutional function of making representations—and we've established that it has that constitutional function—in relation to a decision that is going to be made if it doesn't know the government intends to make such a decision? What is going to be the obligation on the government to notify the Voice that such decisions will be made so they know they can make a representation?