As Debt Hits $167 Billion, MP Says Victoria Can’t Afford Indigenous ‘Voice’ Plan

‘All this stuff that’s being talked about is going to cost huge amounts of money’, said Libertarian MP David Limbrick.

Protesters participate in the Treaty Before Voice Invasion Day Protest outside Parliament House in Melbourne, Australia on Jan. 26, 2023. Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images

Libertarian MP David Limbrick says he will oppose Victoria’s proposed state-based Indigenous Voice, concerned at the cost taxpayers will bear.

The upper house MP’s comments come after Labor revealed its Statewide Treaty Bill, which aims to embed a “Voice” that will act as an advisory body to the parliament.