
Conversations: with Nicholas Aroney, Professor of Constitutional Law at The University of Queensland
John Anderson: Conversations
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The Voice Is Trying to Negotiate This Issue
Western constitutions are based on selection and removal of people to lead at the point of a pencil. Many Aboriginal communities are much more traditionally based, the power structures are based around kinship. And maybe the voice is an attempt for people to try and come to grips with that, those differences. The question is whether it's going to be an effective method by which truly local opinion and truly local communities will have some sort of effective say or not.
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