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Cr Cassidy asks if the Lord Mayor will support a Yes vote on the Voice. Points to a number of Liberal politicians around the country, as well as the Brisbane Olympic Organising Committee on which he sits.
The Lord Mayor refuses to say so. Says that there are “some very simple questions” that need to be answered before he can do so. He wants to know how the Jagera, Turrbal, and Quandamooka people will be represented on the Voice.
Some members of the gallery interrupt, presumably criticising the Lord Mayor’s answer. But we can’t actually hear what is said. They are given an order by the Chair to remain silent, and when they refuse to do so are removed from the chamber.
It should be noted that:
the precise make-up of the Voice is not specified by the constitutional changes, and will be left up to implementing legislation (which can be changed without a referendum).
The current plan is to give each state 2 members, in addition to a total of 5 (one for Queensland) from remote areas. The representatives of each local area would be decided by local sub-Voices.
As a result, the answer is that most likely the Brisbane indigenous community would receive one representative in the national Voice, and if they didn’t get that they would receive the power to help choose who does represent them. I’d expect to see one for SEQ, one for the non-remote parts of the rest of Queensland, and one remote. With three different Peoples currently represented in BCC, they’d have significant power within the SEQ seat.
But the true answer is that because it’s not specified in the constitutional amendment, it would be flexible to be able to adapt after-the-fact to best serve the function of giving Indigenous Australians a voice.
Cr Cassidy asks if the Lord Mayor will support a Yes vote on the Voice. Points to a number of Liberal politicians around the country, as well as the Brisbane Olympic Organising Committee on which he sits.
The Lord Mayor refuses to say so. Says that there are “some very simple questions” that need to be answered before he can do so. He wants to know how the Jagera, Turrbal, and Quandamooka people will be represented on the Voice.
Some members of the gallery interrupt, presumably criticising the Lord Mayor’s answer. But we can’t actually hear what is said. They are given an order by the Chair to remain silent, and when they refuse to do so are removed from the chamber.
It should be noted that:
As a result, the answer is that most likely the Brisbane indigenous community would receive one representative in the national Voice, and if they didn’t get that they would receive the power to help choose who does represent them. I’d expect to see one for SEQ, one for the non-remote parts of the rest of Queensland, and one remote. With three different Peoples currently represented in BCC, they’d have significant power within the SEQ seat.
But the true answer is that because it’s not specified in the constitutional amendment, it would be flexible to be able to adapt after-the-fact to best serve the function of giving Indigenous Australians a voice.