All you need to know for the Referendum wogarlb
3. The Bill introduces a new section into the Constitution which would be located in a new Chapter IX, to be named ‘Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’. The section, to be titled ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice’, would contain four components. The purposes of these components are:
· introductory words to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Peoples of Australia;
· subsection 129(i) to provide for the establishment of a new constitutional entity called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice;
· subsection 129(ii) to set out the representation-making function of the Voice; and
· subsection 129(iii) to confer upon the Parliament legislative power to make laws with respect to matters relating to the Voice, including its composition, functions, powers and procedures.
4. The Voice would be an enduring institution to ensure that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples can make representations to the Commonwealth Parliament and the Executive Government of the Commonwealth to improve the development and implementation of laws and policies that relate to them.
https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2023B00060/Explanatory%20Memorandum/Text
