South Australia will enshrine a body made up of Indigenous people to the parliament to advise the government on Indigenous-related affairs, in a nation’s first.
The centre-left Labor government’s legislation passed the House of Assembly in a special sitting on Sunday and was immediately proclaimed by Governor Frances Adamson in a rare public ceremony in front of a crowd who gathered to watch the proceedings outside parliament house in Adelaide.
Meanwhile, at the federal level, the Voice has come under heavy scrutiny from the Coalition who criticised the proposal as vague given its wide-ranging implications and the Indigenous body’s unclear power….