Breaking: South Australia has become the first state to legislate an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
The legislation will be immediately proclaimed by Governor Frances Adamson, Premier Peter Malinauskas and Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher in front of a large crowd on parliament's front steps.SA Labor's bill for an Indigenous voice to the state parliament passed on Sunday.
South Australia has become the first state to allow an Indigenous voice to parliament with Premier Peter Malinauskas declaring it the most powerful show of respect towards Australia's First Nations people. But he said it was an even more remarkable Australian tragedy that the one group of people left most behind for the past 200 years were the people who, for more than 65,000 years, had provided "great care and custodianship for the land we stand on today".
"There are no more powerful deeds than South Australia becoming the first place in our nation to pass a law enshrining an Indigenous voice to our parliament," he said.Now we know the Voice to Parliament question, what's next for the referendum? Two members from each group will then form the State First Nations Voice, which can address either house of state parliament on legislation of interest to Aboriginal people.
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