It does rather seem like the old Recognition proposal reheated, with a committee tacked on. It’s true it couldn’t be formally abolished if it’s in the Constitution, but it’d be easy enough for a future government to defund or restructure & stack it( if they had the Senate numbers)

Or they could just ignore it like the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation report, that involved *ten years* of consultations & only had 6 key recommendations. ATSIC was only able to be abolished because the Labor opposition supported it in the Senate. Same with NT intervention & suspending the RDA

True. It would also be possible for the Senate to be restructured according to Joyce’s horrifying “regions” model. In theory though this referendum process safeguards against defunding the Voice.