“They will well understand the reason for the Voice to improve the life outcomes for First Nations people,but also issues around how it will work,” she told the ABC’sInsiders program.
“And,importantly,what it will mean in uniting this country.”
Burney said she wouldn’t get ahead of the working groups tasked with refining the detail,but it was clear what the Voice will be and will not be.
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“It will not have a veto right of the parliament,” she said.
“It’s advisory and it will also not have a program delivery function.”
The federal National Party has already come out against the establishment of the Voice to parliament.