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

I thank Senator Nampijinpa Price for the question. The point I was making in that opinion piece is that whilst we are making appropriate investments, as each government has and as governments of all political persuasions have, we aren't seeing the improvement in outcomes. That's the point I was making. We had been arguing that the Voice was a mechanism to change that—that the status quo wasn't working and that by listening and working and taking advice from First Nations people through a Voice, we would be able to improve on those outcomes, through the process the Voice would allow. As the referendum has been held, we respect the outcome of that referendum. We will continue to listen and to work on that, and we'll use the Central Australian strategy and the work that Minister Burney is doing through that as a model of how to ensure that we are getting better outcomes for the money that's being invested in First Nations communities.