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Dangerous detail: how the Voice will select its 24 members

18 July 2023

4:00 AM

18 July 2023

4:00 AM

Australians have been told that if we want to understand the Voice proposal we should read the 272-page Final Report to the Australian Government ‘Indigenous Voice Co-design Process’. Having undertaken that task, it is possible to clarify several key design features of the Voice. This assessment focuses on how the 24 National Voice members will be selected.

What remains open to question is whether each Australian Indigenous person will have a genuine and democratic input into the selection process.

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