Conservatives opposed to the referendum believe courts will trample over parliamentary sovereignty.
There are 152 submissions to the parliamentary inquiry examining the proposed constitutional amendment for the Indigenous Voice.
Callinan said it “would be imprudent to underestimate the capacity of any future High Court for ingenuity or originality”. “Equally, the public might be interested in what the opinion of the solicitor-general was of the likelihood of success of the Commonwealth in the case of Love v Commonwealth.“I doubt whether many lawyers or the solicitor-general, who unsuccessfully argued the case for the Commonwealth, gave an opinion predicting the outcome there.Advertisement
“At least to some Voice backers that’s exactly what’s intended; a kind of co-government in which nothing will happen except by the leave of the original inhabitants.” The Samuel Griffith Society, which Hearsay has called the constitutional version of the flat earth society, has banged the Love drum incessantly since 2020.
“There is no doubt that here, as everywhere, there will be timid men who are afraid of launching something new; but when was ever a great thing achieved without risking something.”Vic Bar delay
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