The committee has spent six weeks travelling the country holding hearings into the proposed wording. It wants the parliament to pass the referendum legislation without any changes.
The Coalition members raised issues with whether the government and the executive would be obliged to consult and consider representations of the Voice, and the impact of that process on government decision-making.
"The fact is, serious experts, including former High Court and Federal Court judges, gave conflicting evidence about the risk. That is enough cause for the Parliament to take the issue seriously and take steps to eliminate it.""I can't justify what those people have written in their dissenting reports, but what I can say is that I don't feel that they have actually reflected the evidence that they've received during these hearings," she said.
However, the dissenting report confirmed the Coalition will not seek to block the referendum from happening, flagging it may potentially vote with the government when the bill returns to parliament. "Their vote may hinge on the principle of equality of citizenship, whether a new national institution can address disadvantage, or whether the wording contains unacceptable constitutional risk, as this report addresses."
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