Australian Indigenous affairs minister Linda Burney has stressed the importance of simplicity in terms of the question that Australians will face in a referendum on whether an indigenous voice to parliament should be enshrined in the constitution.
Speaking to the Australian Broadcasting Commission on Monday, Burney said that as prime Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had made clear, keeping the question simple is “absolutely fundamental”.
“The last thing we would want, which we have seen in the past in terms of referendum, is a proposition or question that people can’t assign up to,” she said.
This comes after Albanese’s speech on Saturday at the Garma Festival in Australia’s Northern Territory, in which he put forward a question that could potentially be put to voters….