What happens if Yes wins?

If Yes wins, our Constitution will be updated and we’ll start the work of drafting legislation for the Voice. A lot of people have said what’d they’d do, let’s get into it.

The government will have a First Nations Voice Working Group to help them draft the legislation for the Voice. The Uluru Statement group will want to be part of that, and some Design Principles have already been agreed on. If you didn’t like the way it was written, you could contact your MP or Senators to try to get them to change it. The legislation would then be passed as a bill through the usual Parliament voting process.

Pretty much every Indigenous person with a media profile has been asked if they would be part of the Voice. Since the plan is to get Indigenous groups to choose someone for their region, most of those people have replied with statements like “If my people choose me, then I’ll serve on the Voice”. Interestingly both Senator Jacinta Price and Warren Mundine, conservative No campaigners who are Indigenous, have said they’d campaign to be part of the Voice if Yes wins.

I’m going to link one of the same articles I put in the “What if No wins?” post, because it covers both Yes and No outcomes. Several international leaders have said they will be pleased if Yes wins, and it will make diplomacy in the Pacific region easier.

I think rapper Briggs has said it best on Twitter (I’ll copy the text below because I don’t trust that site to keep the tweet embedded):

“Yes” says the conversation with Blackfullas continues.
“No” says we’re done here.

— Senator Briggs (Biblically Accurate) (@Briggs) August 10, 2023

Briggs wrote on August 11th:

“Yes” says the conversation with Blackfullas continues.

“No” says we’re done here.