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The Voice empowers bureaucracy over democracy

26 August 2023

5:00 AM

26 August 2023

5:00 AM

The Australian people will soon be asked through a national referendum to alter the Constitution to establish an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.

It is proposed that non-elected representatives of a racially identified cohort called ‘First Peoples’ be a Voice-committee-of-oversight to determine the course of parliamentary and executive government decisions and actions.

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