Senate debates

Wednesday, 2 August 2023

Questions without Notice

First Nations Australians

2:43 pm

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

The Voice, as I said yesterday, is about making a practical difference. It's about constitutional recognition. It's about consultation and listening to First Nations people, at their request, when they say this is what they would like to see happen, so we can start shifting the dial in all of those areas—in jobs, in housing, in education, in justice. I thought we had unanimous agreement that we wanted to see progress in all these areas. I thought that. We have seen years and years of the parliament working together to make decisions. The Voice is simply—

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