{"id":14371,"date":"2021-12-21T03:05:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T03:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=14371"},"modified":"2021-12-21T03:05:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T03:05:47","slug":"wishes-of-first-nations-people-essential-on-voice-to-parliament-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/12\/21\/wishes-of-first-nations-people-essential-on-voice-to-parliament-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Wishes of First Nations people essential on Voice to Parliament legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"

After two years of consultation with First Nations leaders, the federal Government has released the Final Report on a proposal for an Indigenous Voice to parliament.
\nYamatji-Noongar Senator for WA, Dorinda Cox, acting Greens spokesperson for First Nations said:<\/strong>
\n\u201cThe Greens will closely scrutinise all legislation that the Government puts to the Parliament regarding a Voice. Like always we will work with grassroots First Nations people to make sure all proposals align with the wishes of First Nations people and their communities,\u201d she said.
\n\u201cAny proposal must uphold the principles outlined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s unclear, at this stage, how creating the Voice to Parliament first will affect the process of national truth-telling and healing as we move our country towards a Treaty or Treaties with First Nations people. We haven’t seen the model they’re settling on, so we will be following this closely.
\n\u201cWe are concerned at the timing of this announcement, as it comes very late in the Morrison Governments\u2019 term. There will be an election by May 2022, with a limited number of sitting days before this. It\u2019s unclear how the election will affect this work.
\n\u201cWe would like to thank and congratulate the Voice senior advisory group for their work, particularly Professors Tom Calma and Marcia Langton.
\n\u201cWe look forward to working with the Parliament on this next year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After two years of consultation with First Nations leaders, the federal Government has released the Final Report on a proposal for an Indigenous Voice to parliament. Yamatji-Noongar Senator for WA, Dorinda Cox, acting Greens spokesperson for First Nations said: \u201cThe Greens will closely scrutinise all legislation that the Government puts to the Parliament regarding a … Continue reading “Wishes of First Nations people essential on Voice to Parliament legislation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}