Australia’s Indigenous Minister Linda Burney has been forced to reassure voters that a contentious change to the country’s Constitution will not result in wide powers being used to affect everyday people’s lives.
The Labor minister faced probing questions over the extent of power an Indigenous advisory body to parliament will receive if a national referendum succeeds later this year.
She assured sitting MPs in parliament that The Voice would only “make representations” that affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and that it would “not run programs, it will not deliver funding, and it will not have the power of veto.”…