Submission to the National Indigenous Australians Agency First Nations Voice Design Interim Report
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Indigenous Aspirations and Structural Reform in Australia (Hart Publishing, 2021) explored how the design of Indigenous representative bodies can help ensure that they are effective institutions, capable of empowering Indigenous peoples with the capacity to have their voices heard in the processes of government.Many of these design issues, particularly those concerning membership, are properly ones for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to decide.For this reason, I will limit my submission to the question of the relationship between the National Voice and the Australian Government and the Australian Parliament, and how to enhance the likelihood that the Voice will be consulted. Consultation and DialogueThe report makes clear that the proposed national voice will not be able to veto legislation or otherwise overrule government policy.This is sensible.In our democracy, the party or parties that can command a majority of seats in the House of Representatives should be entitled to implement their policy program.Where that program may affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, however, they should be allowed and encouraged to provide advice.It is here where challenges emerge.The report suggest two degrees of consultation depending upon the scope of the proposed law.Parliament and the Australian Government would be obliged to consult the National Voice on a narrow range of proposed laws which are exclusive to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and would be expected to consult on a broader component of laws that also affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.This suggestion is reasonable.And yet, because the obligation to consult in both cases would be non-justiciable, it is not clear whether consultation will actually occur.The National Voice will not need to influence every government policy or proposed law.Nonetheless, if Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people come to believe that the National Voice is not able to express their voices to the government and to the Parliament, because the government and the Parliament does not engage or consult with the body, it is likely that they will regard the Voice as ineffective.The success of the National Voice will ultimately rest on whether Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples support it.In turn, that support rests on whether the government and the Parliament consult.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.009 | 0.015 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.074 | 0.033 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".