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

I now need to remind you that we established a number of hours ago that the design principles are effectively just that. You have said several times this evening—in fact, multiple times this evening—that the body itself is going to be designed by the parliament, and you have stated the parliament does not in any way have to have any regard at all to the design principles.

Can I ask, in particular as a Western Australian: if it's not dealt with like a house of representatives—so on a proportionate basis—will the number of Voice representatives be determined on a state-by-state basis like a senate, and, if so, how will the government ensure that smaller Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, again, do not have a disproportionately large voice?