MPs including Andrew Hastie and Angus Taylor have been asked to apologise for misrepresenting the words of two judges to undermine an enshrined Indigenous Voice.
Opposition MPs are under fire for misquoting two former High Court judges on their position on the Indigenous Voice to parliament, sparking calls for an apology.
He said: “Given the immense range of matters in which there might be an interaction between a proposed policy or practice and impacts on Indigenous people in one way or another, to imply a duty to consult across all of that range would really make government unworkable. I don’t think the High Court is in that business.”
He went on to say that because parliament would have the right to design the laws that underpinned the Voice, any argument that a duty to consult would stymie government was “untenable”.The Liberal MPs’ dissenting report said Hayne had given “evidence that a duty to consult the Voice would ‘disrupt the ordinary and efficient working of government’ to such an extent that it would ‘bring government to a halt’.
Similar comments were attributed to Hayne and French in parliamentary speeches from five other Liberal MPs during the debate over the referendum legislation. “Mr Hastie should immediately apologise to both these distinguished former High Court justices and, as soon as Parliament returns, stand up, apologise to the House and correct the record,” he said.Alex Ellinghausen
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