21 Jun 2023

Australia: Voice referendum, bus seatbelts, hospital resort, bye Fantales

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 21 June 2023
Indigenous voice, Gold Coast, Fantales

Photo: AFP, Countdown

Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about Parliament finally passing legislation to enable a referendum later this year on whether to enshrine formal recognition of Indigenous people via a permanent advisory body to government in the constitution.

New South Wales is to consider broadening its rollout of seatbelts on buses in the wake of a horror crash that killed 10 in a wedding party.

There's been an outcry over hospital patients in Queensland being housed at a Gold Coast theme park due to bed shortages.

And confectionary stalwart Fantales are no more...

Karen Middleton is chief political correspondent for The Saturday Paper.