Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

I will remember Senator Liddle when I post next on social media, hopeful that she'll enjoy it. The focus for the government is on the Voice. There will be a referendum, and everyone will have an opportunity to vote. Our focus is on ensuring that we're closing the gap, focusing on Indigenous health, education, housing and jobs and making a practical difference. I think there is surely some agreement across this chamber that in a number of areas the current situation, the status quo, is not delivering the outcomes that any single one of us in this chamber would want to see continue for any time longer. That is in areas such as incarceration, children being placed in out-of-home care, babies with low birth weight and children being assessed as not on track developmentally. In all of those areas we are not seeing the outcomes that we want to see, which is why there will be—

An opposition senator interjecting—

It is relevant, because it's about outcomes. The Voice is about outcomes. The Uluru Statement from the Heart is about outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and improving them—