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No scope for Voice litigation: ex chief justice

Michael Pelly

The current wording for the referendum on the Indigenous Voice to parliament leaves “little or no scope for constitutional litigation” and does not infringe international agreements on racial discrimination, according to former High Court chief justice Robert French.

Mr French says the only way the Voice could be justiciable would be if the legislation that established it after a referendum required the executive to consider representations from the Voice.

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Michael Pelly was The Australian Financial Review’s legal editor

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