Indigenous voice and economy top parliamentary agenda

Tributes will be paid to the late Liberal senator Jim Molan on the first parliamentary sitting day. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Cost of living and the Indigenous voice referendum will dominate the federal parliamentary agenda as politicians return to the nation's capital.

Federal parliament will meet for the first time this year after a summer dominated by commentary on the plebiscite to enshrine an Indigenous voice in the constitution.