The current Voice to Parliament proposal advocated by the Albanese government is “confining and constraining” and a “difficult model to accept”, says Senior Barrister Graham Connolly.
“The Voice will actually have in its constitutional existence, a power of confining and constraining what it is the Parliament may wish to do with the Voice,” Mr Connolly told Sky News Australia host Amanda Stoker.
“Which is why this Voice model, even for people who would otherwise advocate a Voice, is a, I think a very, very difficult model to accept.”
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