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

This is a completely different question: this is about the definition of 'community'. About 20 minutes ago, you suggested that I had asked a question about litigation to compel government departments to engage with the Voice; in fact, what I asked was about litigation to compel the Voice to provide representations. The two issues may sound similar, they may use similar words, but they are fundamentally different.

Perhaps you thought the questions were the same because you've given up listening at this time of the morning, but when you keep saying, for example, 'I refer you to my previous answer,' you are really just saying to the Australian people that you don't want to engage with them and you won't give them answers. It is ironic that in a debate about a Voice the government is refusing to provide answers because it won't listen. So again I'll ask you, how will the government decide who is part of a community and who is not?