The power in the Voice is that it creates the ability for First Nations people to… punish politicians that ignore our advice.

While Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney tried to make claims about what the Voice would and wouldn’t have a say on, the architects of the Voice and the government’s own legal experts contradicted her.

She said the Voice wouldn’t be involved in the push to abolish Australia Day, but Yes campaign boss Dean Parkin said the Voice would be the “mechanism” for influencing change on matters like Australia Day.

“That Voice is going to be the mechanism, the constitutionally guaranteed Voice, is going to be the mechanism that allows us a seat at the table to ensure that these conversations around truth, be it on the 26th [Australia Day] or be it on any other issue that’s affecting our people, that we have a real say and that we have a real opportunity to actually influence change.”

In the Senate on Friday night and into the early hours of Saturday morning, Labor confirmed that all the details would be sorted out AFTER you vote in the referendum.

Marcia Langton, co-author of the Voice report said:

“People who are opposing (the Voice) are saying we are destroying the fabric of their sacred constitution. Yes, that’s right, that’s exactly what we’re doing.”

Thomas Mayo, a signatory of the Uluru Statement who stood shoulder to shoulder with Albanese to announce the Voice, had even more to say:

“There is nothing more powerful than building a First Nation’s Voice, a black institution, a black political force to be reckoned with.”

“The power in the Voice is that it creates the ability for First Nations people to… punish politicians that ignore our advice.”

You can watch his full comments, including his nod to his communist party “elders”, here:

The truth is that Albo and his mates can’t promise what their ‘proactive’ Voice will and won’t insert itself into, what issues will be within its scope, and which won’t be.

They’ve put forward their proposed wording, and once their Voice is in the Constitution, the parliament loses the power to restrict it.

Legal experts both for and against the Voice have warned that Labor’s proposal is flawed and will pave the way for disaster.

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price