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Senator Jacinta Price at the No forum on the Voice to Parliament
The Examiner
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8/29/2023
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A modest, benign advisory body that's as far as, as much as we, well we don't know
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that that's going to be the case because we're also told, you know, vote yes now
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and the details will come later. And such a huge undertaking, such a huge amendment
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to make to our Constitution. The Australian people deserve to understand
00:27
what the detail is on this proposal. Participate, because you're a senator in
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Parliament, you'll be able to determine what this voice looks like. Well I can
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tell you now, sitting in opposition at the moment, it's actually quite difficult
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to get, to get support for anything that I put forward and I mean I put forward
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the Prime Minister's Bill to reinstate alcohol restrictions after the
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devastation of the lifting of the alcohol restriction bill, of alcohol
01:01
restrictions in my community. I was ignored and I was told it was nonsense
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and I lost that vote. So to suggest that somehow I will play a meaningful part in
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what this voice looks like is just lip service and nonsense from the
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government. There is of course about 35 billion a year spent on attempting to
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improve the lives of marginalised Indigenous Australians and that is failing.
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So you know given that the proponents of the voice and within those 26 pages
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suggest that there needs to be a place within Canberra for the voice, they need
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to set aside or create a new building for the voice in Canberra, in Parliament
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itself. They've even used terminology like a
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black Parliament. The cost would be massive, would be huge and that would be
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to the taxpayer so that 3% of the population can be represented.
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Roll up my sleeves and get my hands dirty and fix the mess that currently exists,
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determine whether billions of dollars are being spent and/or misspent or
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whether being effective and producing outcomes. I want to fix or do away with
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the structures that currently exist already as opposed to creating a whole
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new one trying to reinvent the wheel and plonking it over the top of the mess
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that currently exists. I would want to review the Land Rights Act which we as
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traditional owners are governed by in the Northern Territory where you know a
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lot of marginalised Indigenous Australians actually live and reform it
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in such a way that it provides the opportunity for traditional owners to
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actually have real control over their land, to create economic development
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opportunities, to move away from welfare and to be the job creators without having
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to rely consistently on government to create jobs and/or rely on
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welfare. There are sorts of things that can be done and should be done that
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haven't actually been done despite the fact that the Prime Minister is
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suggesting that the voice is something that hasn't been done before and myself
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and Senator for South Australia, Karen Little, we have a motion on the floor of the
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Senate at the moment to launch that inquiry into land councils, statutory
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authorities, Aboriginal organisations to understand where that money is being
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spent so that we can begin to apply real accountability and determine where that
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money is better spent and again to begin that process of fixing those
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structures that currently exist.
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(audience applauding)
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