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Senator Pat Dodson calls for bi-partisan on a Voice to parliament.

Over two and a half hours, the full panoply of ritualistic church grandeur was deployed. There was no sign of chastened restraint, only defiance.

Jim Chalmers likes to say we need national “conversations” about the economic issues facing the country. Now, just as the new parliamentary year is set to begin on Monday, Chalmers has bought himself a doozy of a conversation, with his essay advocating we embrace “values-based capitalism”.

A fourth sentence explicitly recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the traditional owners of Australia could be added to the constitution if a referendum on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament succeeds.

The opposition leader vows to continue to meet with Indigenous leaders helping to shape the looming Voice to Parliament referendum, after talking with the group for the first time.

A funeral for a late cardinal and a meeting with Voice supporters is on Dutton’s agenda today.

A potential committee to which the Voice to Parliament speaks must not be vulnerable to the whims of the government.

I think the Voice is the best next step for Australia. But it’s important to listen to First Nations arguments for and against the proposal.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he would have signed up to the AUKUS deal with the US and UK if he had been PM at the time, and he has asked Opposition Leader Peter Dutton just what will it take to get his support for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.