The Indigenous Australians Minister revealed the federal government will introduce legislation to parliament in March setting up the referendum.
The public will vote on a constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice to parliament as early as August, with Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney revealing the federal government will introduce legislation to parliament in March setting up the referendum.is likely to launch late next month, meaning the campaign will ramp up just weeks before parliament votes to set the referendum date.
“It’ll go off to a committee for six weeks, and then it will come back into the parliament for debate and decision, which will really be the starting gun for the referendum,” Burney said. “I think I have a good relationship with him. I think it’s a very open relationship between [him] and the prime minister,” Burney said.
The Albanese government has increasingly faced criticism, including from Dutton, that it has failed to release detail about the Voice.Burney said she “hears” the criticism but countered that there was already plenty of detail. She promised that “there will be ample information out in the public prior to the referendum for people to make an informed choice”. But she conceded that the exact model would be settled after the vote, saying that was a matter for parliament.
Burney repeated her assurance that the Voice would not have veto power over the parliament, a position backed by a government-selected group of constitutional experts.“It’s an advisory body to the parliament and to the executive government. It won’t usurp existing organisations, and it will not administer programs.”
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