Voice to Parliament debate has been dominated by politics

how do you see this issue and I know they're separate matters but one feeds into the other because when people are under the pump and becoming more angry with their own economic circumstances it does have a potential flow on effect to other issues and people's openness to an argument around something like the voice to Parliament do you think it makes that whole case and campaign more

difficult well I think it could carry and if you're not a competent and coherent government and I think what we've proven in the 12 months that we've been in power is that we can take on those difficult challenges around the economy or around housing and put Solutions in place and largely take the Australian people with us and I think when it comes to the voice um

for me and I spoke in the Senate on this during the debate on the legislation that there is a real practical element to this for me and that is that governments of all persuasion continue to spend money on indigenous issues without getting any results and for me governments in the future are going to continue to do that so that's why I think the voice will be

important because we will be spending money we'll be listening to those people at impacts and it will make better use of that money at the same time so I think that there is a really practical argument for the voice that I'm Keen to make and I'll certainly be doing that in the opportunity that I get between now and when the referendum referendum is and I think

the important part of that is that I've been frustrated with the debate over the last couple of months because that has been dominated by politics and Parliament I'm really pleased that that party's over and we can actually get on to focusing on the part that is going to make a difference on the ground and I think that's when we'll see some significant movement because I am

convinced that this will help people on the ground and that's what Australians want to do can it still be one I definitely think it can still be one uh Karen I think that uh what you see with published polls and as much as politicians don't like to say they follow the polls as you know we often do but they do bounce around and what I am

confident of is that that practical argument because so many Australians want to do the right thing they want to see advancement for indigenous people in this country they want us to be able to close the gap I've got no doubt that if we actually have a voice that we are listening to it will enable us to do that better and more efficiently and that'll be a

great outcome for government across the country if we actually are doing that in a more efficient way than what we've seen over the last 10 20 years where we've been spending money and haven't been closing the Gap so that for me is not an efficient way to do it big few months with the the Rugby World Cup looming and big few years for Queensland but the

Olympics a decade away or a bit under that now you were opening some rugby training facilities today talk us through it what uh other prospects here and and is there any links to the upcoming Olympic Games as well in terms of these facilities in Queensland yeah thanks Karen as you know somebody follows rugby ballymore has really been the spiritual home of Rugby Union Queensland uh for

probably 50 years and it fell into disrepair and there's been a proposal to develop it for many years now and finally the federal and state governments contributed money and they built a fantastic facility where they've made use of the existing grounds the great news is is that the Wallaroo so the female Australian rugby team they'll be headquarters there and these are state-of-the-art facilities as good as

anything I've seen in any of the football crowds across the country and that they'll have access to as long as the as well as the existing Queensland men's and women's teams and then over the next 10 years in the lead up to the Olympics it will end up becoming the hockey center for the Olympics as well so it really is exciting to see good facilities that

ensure that men's and women's teams are on a nickel footing but then we're starting to see that Olympic trans information as well and that's really exciting for the city the state and I think the country in terms of what will be available for the community um post 2032 and in the lead up to