Voice would help ‘change frustration’ over health and education, Linda Burney says

Canberra has to listen to locals, minister tells a community meeting in WA, as Richard Marles says Indigenous affairs is an offence to the fair go'

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The Indigenous voice would help change the frustration" of Aboriginal Australians in health and education, Linda Burney has said, adding that those issues had been ghettoised" into her portfolio in the past rather than dealt with more closely by responsible ministers.

Speaking at a major community meeting in Western Australia's Pilbara region on Wednesday night, the minister for Indigenous Australians said that the proposed national voice was part of the Albanese government trying to do things differently".