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

In effect, what this bill does is say that parliamentary supremacy is maintained, except when it comes to the Voice's constitutional function of making representations, and if a future High Court implies that the constitutional function of making representations imposes reciprocal obligations on government, such as a duty to consult or consider, parliament would not be able to legislate to fix it. So how can you guarantee that that risk won't crystallise, and how can you ask Australians to take that risk?