Voice to parliament won’t give ‘special rights’ to Indigenous Australians, legal experts say

Constitutional experts explain voice will not ‘take away any right, power or privilege of anyone who is not Indigenous’

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The proposed Indigenous voice to parliament would not have a veto power and would not confer “special rights” to any person, a government-selected group of constitutional experts has advised, in a bid to address “plainly incorrect assertions” .

The government has set up several expert groups to advise on details of the voice referendum, expected to be held in the second half of 2023, including a Constitutional Expert Group made up of legal academics including Prof Anne Twomey and Prof George Williams.

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