Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney says she will task the Voice with generating fresh ideas in health, education, jobs and housing from day one.
Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney says she will task the Voice with generating fresh ideas in health, education, jobs and housing from day one, in her strongest comments to date aimed at defining its purpose and agenda.
“As the minister, when I meet with the Voice for the first time, I will say: bring me your ideas on how to stop our people from taking their own lives, bring me your ideas on how to help our kids go to school and thrive, bring me your ideas on how we make sure our mob live strong and healthy lives, how we ensure more people have jobs, how we support families better.”
“Let’s say a local community identifies a problem like low school attendance ... so the community approaches their representative on the Voice and raises this issue with them. The Voice then has the power to make representations on how to improve school attendance in that local community to government and the parliament. It’s about linking up that local decision making and local knowledge with policymakers in government,” Burney will say.
The speech comes at a crucial period for the Yes camp, with polling showing support slipping months out from the referendum, which is expected in October. A Resolve Political Monitor surveyshowed the No side leading 51 to 49 per cent when voters were asked the Yes/No question that will decide the referendum.
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