Government unlikely to support former Liberal frontbencher’s call to wind back the voice’s power to make representations to parliament and executive government
A parliamentary committee on the referendum will hold its first public hearing on Friday, but Labor is unlikely to support Leeser’s suggestion to wind back the voice’s power to make representations to parliament and executive government.
The Joint Select Committee on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice Referendum will hold its first hearing in Canberra this week. The committee – including chair Labor senator Nita Green and deputy chair Liberal MP Keith Wolahan – has been charged with inquiring into the provisions of the constitution alteration proposed this month.
Despite the inquiry running until May, the government is unlikely to support substantially altering its proposed change to the constitution. The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, told Labor caucus in March it was “a precondition of success” that the government was in lockstep with its referendum working group of Indigenous leaders.
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