South Australia’s decision to delay its Voice to Parliament is a “cynical ploy” to stop the public from understanding the full implications of changing the country’s Constitution, says the Institute of Public Affairs.
The free-market think tank’s comments come after South Australia’s Labor government announced it would delay elections for its state-level First Nations Voice until March 16, 2024, to avoid “confusion” with the federal proposal. The original date for voting was set on Sept. 9, 2023.
“The clear advice I’ve received from both the Electoral Commissioner and the Commissioner for First Nations Voice is that the work being done in South Australia is being overshadowed by the debate occurring at a national level around both the ‘Yes’ and the ‘No’ referendum campaigns,” said SA’s Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher, in a statement….