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

I don't think it's the intention that the Voice would make representations on every single thing that governments are considering or every single piece of policy that the government is developing, but the Voice will have the ability to determine what it considers to be priority issues. It can proactively make representations if it were to decide, for instance, that addressing the high levels of incarceration of Indigenous people was a priority and if they had some ideas about what could be done differently to reduce the rate of incarceration. If it had ideas about how we could improve the standard of housing that many First Nations people live in in Australia, then it could make those representations. The parliament and the executive government, if considering actions on those issues, could seek advice, but it is up to the Voice to decide what it does and doesn't want to get involved in.