State and territory legislative vulnerabilities and why an Indigenous Voice must be constitutionally enshrined

• Published in: Alternative Law Journal
• Main Authors: Larkin, Dani, Rigney, Sophie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2021
• Subjects: Law; Sociology and Political Science; First Nations
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1037969x211032734; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1037969X211032734; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/1037969X211032734

This article sets out the background to what has occurred since the issuing of the Uluru Statement from the Heart and provides an overview of the Indigenous Voice Co-Design Interim Report and its Voice design options. In doing so, we discuss the possible progression of Local and Regional Voices and other sub-national legislation on First Nations issues. We analyse how those efforts might be limited and/or extinguished if a First Nations Voice is not constitutionally enshrined when we consider the relationship and legislative powers of the Commonwealth, state, and territory parliaments.