The Coalition says the points Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has asked about the Voice ‘won’t go away’. Here are some answers using input from all sides.
, only the composition, powers and impact of what the PM says will be an advisory body with no veto power over legislation.in the 272-page report by Tom Calma and Marcia LangtonLabor no longer references the report, but it remains an important reference point for the debate about the composition, remit and powers of the Voice.
The Calma-Langton report proposed a national body, comprised of 24 people. It said the local and regional bodies would choose people in each state to serve on the national body. It also proposed five positions for people in remote communities on a national body and another for Torres Strait Islanders living on the mainland.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton on Monday, during his apology to Australia’s Indigenous peoples on the 15th anniversary of the national apology.Most Commonwealth agencies have a self-identification process involving a statutory declaration. Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has proposed that only those with 25 per cent blood quantum be classified as Indigenous, a process that is not regarded as credible on technical grounds.
, even if they are not citizens, and deport them for criminal offences under “bad character” provisions in migration law. The proposed constitutional amendment says it “may make representations to Parliament and the Executive Government on matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples”.
The only requirement – as per the first sentence of the draft constitutional amendment – is that there “shall be a body to be called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice”. It does not prescribe what the body should look like or how many members it will have. There is concern in some Indigenous groups that the process and debate is being dominated by those who were behind the constitutional conventions that led to the Uluru statement in 2017 and have been the principal advocates for the Voice since then – Uluru Dialogues co-chair Pat Anderson and Megan Davis, and Cape York leader Noel Pearson.
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