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THE 'VOICE' ALREADY EXISTS



This a web site every Australian should be aware of:

National Indigenous Australians Agency

Main office is located in Canberra at the following address:
Charles Perkins House, 16 Bowes Place, Woden ACT 2606

It is the web site of the National Indigenous Australians Agency. The NIAA is a government funded body tasked with improving the lives of indigenous Australians and to advise government on ways and means to do so. You can read their mission statement and you will discover a very simple truth: Their role is exactly the same as the proposed VOICE to parliament. This body is not new. It has been using taxpayer funds for some time, to do exactly what the VOICE is now proposed to do.

This is not a little back office, government funded sideshow. The NIAA has some 1,300 employees; it has offices all over Australia and more importantly the cost to the taxpayer of this organisation last year was around FOUR BILLION dollars ($4,000,000,000). Before we vote for a new version of the NIAA, we are entitled to ask a few questions of our government:

What is the difference between the VOICE and the NIAA?

What are the actual differences the NIAA has made to indigenous Australians?

Will the VOICE replace the NIAA or be in addition to?

How can the VOICE do better than the NIAA and the FOUR BILLION dollars it spends in a year?

If the NIAA was doing its job, the VOICE would not even be in discussion.