Andrew Bolt: Government and federal bureaucrats could be forced to listen to the Voice before making any decision affecting any group of people which includes an Aborigine

Four experts who were all Voice supporters chosen by the government have called out the Prime Minister making crucial claims that are crucially false.

Anthony Albanese is nice and means well. Yet the Prime Minister is also a liar or dangerously ignorant on key details of his Voice.

Maybe he’s just not a details guy. During his election campaign he couldn’t recall even the unemployment rate or Reserve Bank’s cash rate.

But this is bizarre and far more serious. Extremely serious.

Here’s falsehood – or lie – number 1: Albanese claimed this Voice, a kind of Aboriginal-only Parliament, wouldn’t advise the government on anything other than Aboriginal policies.

“The voice is not about defence policy; it’s not about foreign affairs policy,” he insisted.

Albanese is a liar or dangerously ignorant on key details of his Voice. Picture: Getty

“The Voice is about matters that directly affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.”

Two members of the government’s own Constitutional Expert Group on the Voice say that’s actually false.

One, Professor Greg Craven, even mocked the Prime Minister as “Anthony Albanesia”, saying Albanese’s Voice could actually “comment on everything from submarines to parking tickets”.

The other, lawyer Father Frank Brennan, says the actual words of Albanese’s planned change to our constitution don’t limit the Voice to just “special laws” affecting Aborigines, but they should. Instead, it can advise on any “matters relating to” Aborigines.

This means the government and federal bureaucrats could be forced to listen to the Voice before making any decision affecting any group of people which includes an Aborigine.

Professor Greg Craven says the Voice could comment on ‘everything from submarines to parking tickets’. Picture: Jane Dempster

Albanese’s Attorney-General, Mark Dreyfus, was so alarmed by this that he last month tried to change Albanese’s wording. He was overruled.

But Albanese then said, don’t worry: parliament has “primacy” and can control what the Voice looks into. It was “ill-informed or deliberately misleading” to say the Voice could ask the High Court to overrule the government.

But two more of Albanese’s own constitutional experts last week said he was wrong again.

Professors Anne Twomey and George Williams both said, no, Parliament cannot change what’s in the constitution.

“That’s the point of putting things in the constitution,” said Williams. “It puts them beyond the Parliament.”

Remember, these four experts were all Voice supporters chosen by the government. They’ve called out the Prime Minister making crucial claims that are crucially false.

This shows Albanese’s Voice isn’t just racist, bringing to Australia a form of apartheid, 31 years after South Africa voted to scrap its own.

It’s also undemocratic. It lets unelected and unsackable judges give an unelected and unsackable race activists in the Voice power over our elected government. And Albanese refuses to tell that truth.