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Joyce describes Indigenous voice as ‘a consultative power by selected group’
Joyce says the voice will affect all Australians, not just Indigenous Australians, because a selected rather than elected body will move away from the democratic process.
It is a massive change to how democracy works because we’re now dealing with a consultative power by selected group, not an elected group … and that move away from the democratic process.
What I’m asking you is that you say on one hand that there’s no legislation … But you also make a claim about a model which doesn’t exist, you can’t have it both ways.
In all the narrative from Mr Pearson, to his Ms Langton, to the Calma Langton report, they talk about selection, not election.
So then you do think you’ve got a model?
Then let us see the legislation.
I just don’t believe that we should be inserting a racial clause into our constitution in 2023.
Tick the box that you believe in racial differentiation. You’ve just ticked the box that you believe in racial differentiation.
It’s the form that it comes in. I’ve got no problems with the statement of fact that Indigenous Australians were the first people in Australia.
I’ve got no problems with the constitutional recognition referendum on the premise that we see the details first … I’m talking to about a more proper and pertinent alternative approach, which means that we get all the details not some of the details, we see the legislation before we vote, we don’t get a blank check. And we also make sure that we see the proper legal opinion before we vote not someone’s opinion of the opinion, which is what Mr Albanese is going to give us.
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