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Here’s some selected longer reads:
Legal Advice
Attorney-Generals submission (#64) to the Parliamentary Inquiry into the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice Referendum (includes the Solicitor General’s advice link
Memorandum of advice for the Victorian Bar, by Peter Hanks KC and Rachel Doyle SC link
On lawyers advocacy
Megan Davis A First Nations Voice, Constitutional Law Reform, and the Responsibility of Lawyers AusPubLawBlog 2022
Paula Gerber and Katie O’Bryan Lawyers can play role in Voice debate Proctor 10 August 2023
Marie Iskander The duty of lawyers to inform and be informed on the proposed constitutional Voice to Parliament Lawyers Weekly April 2023
Jess Feyder Lawyers ‘ideally placed’ to ensure public understands Voice to Parliament Lawyers Weekly October 2022
On the legal impact of the Voice
Elisa Arcioni and Andrew Edgar The Voice: A constitutional and administrative law perspective Law Society Journal June 2023
Gabrielle J. Appelby, Ron Levy, and Helen Whalan, Voice versus Rights: The First Nations Voice and the Australian Constitutional Legitimacy Crisis (January 27, 2023). University of New South Wales Law Journal, Vol. 46, No. 3, 2023, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4339744 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4339744
Dani Larkin, Kate Galloway Constitutionally entrenched Voice to Parliament: Representation and good governance 46 (3) ALTLJ 2021.
Dani Larkin, Sophie Rigney State and territory legislative vulnerabilities and why an Indigenous Voice must be constitutionally enshrined 46 (3) ALTLJ 2021
Scott Stephenson No, the Voice isn’t a ‘radical’ change to our Constitution The Conversation 23 Feb 2023
Gabrielle Appelby, Geoffrey Lindell, Hannah McGlade 10 questions about the Voice to Parliament – answered by the experts The Conversation 19 June 2023
Harry Hobbs (Ed) Special Issue on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice Public Law Review Vol 34, 2023 Full Text here
Jason O’Neil Designing an Indigenous Voice that empowers: How constitutional recognition could strengthen First Nations sovereignty 46 (3) ALTLJ 2021
Special Issue Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues June 2023
Voice to Parliament books
Megan Davis, George Williams Everything You Need to Know about the Voice (2023, UNSW Press)
Megan Davis Voice of Reason: On Recognition and Renewal: Quarterly Essay 90 (2023, Black Inc)
Thomas Mayo, Kerry O’Brien The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need (2023, Hardie Grant)
Shireen Morris A First Nations Voice in the Australian Constitution (2020, Bloomsbury)
Melissa Castan, Lynette Russell Time to Listen: An Indigenous Voice to Parliament (MUP 2023)
Judicial Perspectives
Murray Gleeson Why I support a Voice to Parliament Inside Story July 2019]
Robert French and Geoffrey Lindell The Voice is low risk but high return Australian Financial Review Feb 2023
Robert French The Voice — A Step Forward for Australian Nationhood AusPubLaw Blog February 2023
Kenneth Hayne Fear of the Voice lost in the lack of legal argument The Australian November 2022
Mary Gaudron and other eminent former Judges An Invitation That Should be Accepted – Leading Judges Support the Voice in Open Letter Australia Institute 1 August 2023
Lawyers for Yes 