00:02Mother of seven Tralina Tucker has gone through labour with both mainstream and Aboriginal birthing services.
00:09One stood out.
00:10It's just that cultural understanding when you go through an Aboriginal birthing program.
00:14They just seem to know. You don't have to continuously tell your story.
00:19It's a model the First Nations voice wants rolled out state-wide,
00:22so Aboriginal mothers can give birth closer to country.
00:26If we can get it right even through birth, it means that we're building a generation that is thriving.
00:31You've been so quiet and polite.
00:33The government says the voice is also contributing to positive changes in police recruitment and bail accommodation.
00:40Real, practical things. They might not light up the sky in terms of newsworthiness,
00:45but my word, little things can make a difference.
00:48So can funding. Some voice elected members are paid less than $100 a week for the part-time role,
00:54supported by an agency with around half a dozen staff.
00:57It's not resourced properly or accordingly to what I suppose is the expectation,
01:02and so these are continued discussions that we have with government.
01:05The voice has done exceptionally well on the funding that they've had,
01:08but as it's been relayed to us, it is difficult for members of the voice to do that interaction with
01:14their local communities.
01:15The government created the voice before the defeat of the national referendum.
01:19Since then, the models experienced a number of teething problems, including member resignations and low voter turnout.
01:25A Liberal Party push to repeal the voice was voted down last week by Labor and the Greens.
01:30But the model faces an uncertain future if power were to change hands.
01:35We are all foreseeing some practical action to really close the gap for Indigenous Australians,
01:39but we don't believe that the voice of parliament is the model for that.
01:43There will be a mandatory review later this year.
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