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Review part of integrity agenda the Albanese government took to the 2022 election. Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastProfessor Davis says the Voice will be critical in allowing Indigenous people input into laws that are made about them because “right now they’re not including our voices from right across the country”.She also expects another Closing the Gap Report that “tells us we’re not closing the gap and, in fact, are going back in some respects”.All Australians can see that something has to change. This is not like the 1999 republic referendum, where they said, “It ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” All Australians can see that the status quo isn’t working, that something is broken, and it needs to be fixed.One of the really important parts of that meeting was to explain to him where the voice to parliament comes from. So, we spoke about the 12 constitutional conventions and the national constitutional convention that was h