The solicitor-general said the model is compatible with responsible government, and an ‘enhancement’ of the system.
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The latest Essential poll also gave federal Labor a 52-43 two party lead.
One crucial question about the Voice to Parliament is how it will ensure voices from regional and remote communities, such as those in the Kimberley, are truly heard in Canberra.
Voters will justifiably ask why they should vote for a form of recognition opposed by the people who are to be recognised.
We are not the nation we were when we voted ‘no’ for a republic – but this seems to be the nation the Liberal Party insists on speaking to.
We now know the wording of the Voice referendum and proposed constitutional amendment. But what may have been forgotten is how we got here in the first place – and why it matters.
In the lead-up to the Voice to parliament referendum, we’re seeing constitutional change is possible. If the Voice is successful, Australia could next consider separating us from the monarchy.
Here’s what the question says, what’s new and what happens next.
The proposed Voice to Parliament is a First Nations advisory body. The way New Zealand have ensured Māori representation in Parliament could be a better way to approach Indigenous self-determination.
What Yorta Yorta leader William Cooper was asking for was a means by which Australia’s lawmakers could be informed of the views of Aboriginal people.
The current draft wording is the model most consistent with Australia’s current and historical constitutional practice.
The sad reality is that if the demands of these early activists had been met nearly a century ago, we would not be suffering the severe disadvantage that hovers over Aboriginal lives still today.
If the 2023 referendum fails, it will at least in part be due to the shortcomings and spoiled hopes of 1967.
The senator’s move to the cross-bench means Labor now needs the support of more cross-benchers, as well as the Greens, to get legislation passed.
This constitutional reform process may be ‘unorthodox’, but it’s entirely appropriate.
In their 1881 petition, Aboriginal people from the Maloga mission who sought greater freedom from missionary control called for the government to grant them their own parcel of land.
The Coalition won the 2019 NSW election by a 52-48 margin, so this poll represents an 8% swing to Labor. But voters are largely indifferent to the Dominic Perrottet Nazi costume scandal.
There has been much debate about the “details” of the Voice to Parliament, but the referendum is on the principle.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, UNSW Law School, UNSW Sydney
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Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, and Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University
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Research Fellow (Indigenous Diplomacy), Australian National University
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Chancellor's Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor emerita, University of Sydney
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Professor, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, Convenor: Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW Sydney
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Principal Research Fellow, James Cook University
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Lecturer, Griffith Law School, Griffith University
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Director/Chair of Aboriginal History - The Wollotuka Institute, University of Newcastle
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Professor of History, Monash University
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Deputy Vice Chancellor (Students Equity and Indigenous), Edith Cowan University
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Research fellow, Murdoch University
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Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney
