To change the constitution in Australia you need a referendum - but how do you vote in a referendum? It's actually incredibly simple! Here's a basic guide as well as a few extra bits of information that's handy to know.

In the early years of the Senate there was a loophole only certain people could exploit to get more votes. Four men teamed up together to see if this worked for them.

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There's the claim that the Voice's approval will be required to pass any bill, or that even Parliament would need to consult the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice ahead of time before it could pass anything. In this episode I'll explain why that doesn't work either constitutionally or practically, and why the Voice won't even read or examine every single bill let alone wish to comment on or have an opinion on every bill. It's approval also is not a requirement to pass a bill, as the constitution clearly doesn't put that restriction on Parliament.

Claims that the Voice will be so powerful that it'll even be able to stop a future referendum bill from passing, thus ensuring it can never be abolished, are going around the internet - but is there any truth to that? The short answer, of course, is no. The long answer is no - but I explain why it's no so you understand it and can hopefully also explain it to someone who is being misled by this outlandish myth.

What is the Voice to Parliament? What does the Voice to Parliament do? Why put it in the constitution? And why would that be different to creating a legislative Voice instead? These questions and more I ask directly to a constitutional expert - Professor Anne Twomey - who was a member of the constitutional expert group advising the referendum working group on some of the constitutional and legal aspects about the Voice.