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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Lorena Allam Indigenous affairs editor

How would an Indigenous voice work and what are people saying about it?

NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal at a press conference in Sydney with prime minister Anthony Albanese and minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney
NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal at a press conference in Sydney with prime minister Anthony Albanese and minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

The Albanese government has put forward a preferred form of words to insert into the constitution to enshrine an Indigenous voice to parliament, starting with a simple question for us all to vote on.

“We should consider asking our fellow Australians something as simple as: ‘Do you support an alteration to the constitution that establishes an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice?’” Anthony Albanese said in July during a landmark speech at the Garma festival in Arnhem Land.

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