South Australia (SA) will forge ahead with its own Indigenous Voice to Parliament, legislated through the SA Parliament, in a move that will likely add a major layer of red tape to government decision-making.
The announcement by the SA Labor Premier Peter Malinauskas comes as his federal counterparts look set to push forward a national referendum on whether to embed the advisory body for Indigenous affairs into the Australian Constitution.
Malinauskas said he took his policy to the recent state election.
“We made it clear that we were committed to the full ‘Uluru Statement from the Heart,’ and we have been consulting with the community broadly, both Indigenous communities and non-Indigenous communities, and we have arrived at a model to put it into the Parliament,” he told Today on Feb. 7….