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On 14 October, Australians will vote in the Voice to Parliament referendum. This is a significant moment in the history of Australia. To help you get referendum ready, we have 16 new short explainer videos on our VOICEfacts site → unimelb.edu.au/voicefacts

The Voice referendum will be October 14. I’ve walked this path long enough to know this is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for change. So get enrolled and start the conversation with your family and friends. This will be a historic campaign.

Here’s what we know out of the last two days of hearings into the FOI scheme: 1. FOI is broken. Delays are endemic, documents are being hidden by excessive exemptions, costs are obscene.

The Voice is a very modest proposal: In a crowded marketplace of ideas, it gives one marginalised group a megaphone and a soapbox. No one has to listen. You can walk away. But maybe there is something worth hearing? #VoiceToParliament #Referendum2023

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Lawyers for a second man who alleges he was falsely imprisoned by judge Salvatore Vasta say they will press forward with their case in the wake of a damning judgment denying him judicial immunity on Wednesday. theguardian.com/law/2023/sep/0…

Just a reminder for everyone, including people like Petaren’t Dutton, the AEC ✏️ has a page that corrects the disinformation being pushed by the No campaign. So if you are speaking on the issue or a journo reporting on it, you have no excuse aec.gov.au/media/disinfor…

The upcoming referendum seems pretty simple to me. Do we want Indigenous Australians to be recognized in the constitution? And do we want to accept their request to be consulted about things that affect them? I’m voting “Yes”. For more info click here: voice.gov.au/about-voice

Join us tomorrow for a lunchtime discussion about the #VoicetoParliament & the upcoming referendum. Dr @DaniLinder88 is a Bundjalung, Kungarakany woman, a public lawyer, and a Senior Lecturer at UQ Law School. monash.edu/law/research/c… Australian Association of Constitutional Law Griffith University Griffith_CGPP #MonashUni

With thanks to Dr Rebecca Ananian-Welsh, the Hon Anthony Whealy KC and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. The article was prepared in the context of Cheryl Saunders and Adrienne Stone's Constitutions in Global Perspective course at Melbourne Law.

Worth watching: National Press Club today, former Chief Justice of Australia, Robert French, on the place of the Voice in the Australian Constitution.

Wow. The news today. Former Chief Justice of the High Court, the UN special rapporteurs for Development & Rights of Indigenous Peoples, hundreds historians, & public law teachers all speaking to the Australian people and explaining why the Voice is needed, urgent, and not risky

Just seen this now — wow!

This thread from Dr Gabrielle Appleby explains succinctly our open letter, signed by 71 public law teachers, to help voters sift through the information on the Voice, details here abc.net.au/news/2023-10-0…

Seventy constitutional law experts have penned an open letter to dispel some of the misinformation circulating surrounding the Voice to Parliament, so, we ask Madelaine Chiam, who signed the letter, to summarise the Voice in a simple way for us.

32 Law Academics at Queensland's oldest Law School UQ Law School, with expertise across diverse areas of law, say the Voice proposal is well-considered, legally sound and will improve Australia’s democracy. I am proud to be one of them. #Yes23 2023-voice-referendum.webflow.io

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