Senate debates

Friday, 16 June 2023

Bills

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

1:08 am

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

I'm glad that you seem to have accepted that it is a handy little booklet. I certainly think it is. You'll see, even in the way the wording is drafted in the handy little booklet, that it says, for instance:

The Voice would be able to make representations proactively.

The Voice would be able to respond to requests for representations …

There's no mandating of things. As to your specific question, we dealt with that some time ago and I'm not going to be repeating answers.

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