South Australia Becomes First State to Pass Voice Legislation

South Australia Becomes First State to Pass Voice Legislation
Premier of South Australia Peter Malinauskas at a press conference during a visit to Cabra Dominican College in Adelaide, Australia, on May 20, 2022. Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images
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South Australia will enshrine a body made up of Indigenous people to the parliament to advise the government on Indigenous-related affairs, in a nation’s first.

The centre-left Labor government’s legislation passed the House of Assembly in a special sitting on Sunday and was immediately proclaimed by Governor Frances Adamson in a rare public ceremony in front of a crowd who gathered to watch the proceedings outside parliament house in Adelaide.

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