Why the Voice can’t be the only answer
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The Myth of Nothing About Us Without Us
Solicitor general's advice was clear that a voice department would not impose any obligations upon the executive government to follow representations of the voice. Danny Gilbert, who is the co-chair for Australians for Indigenous constitutional recognition, sat in a submission to the Joint Select Committee,. That provision imposed is not a legally enforceable constitutional obligation to either establish or maintain the voice. So those two examples from prominent legal minds, who, you know, suggest that governments consistently ignore the evidence base that is in front of them. I mean, to suggest that they don't know what we want as is a myth. And on top of that, the whole theory of change of nothing about us without us doesn't
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