Peter Smith says in his recent Quadrant Online article, “No Wonder They Won’t Detail How the Voice Will Work”: The Voice, if it gets up, will not be an elected body in the sense in which we usually define elected bodies on the national political stage. To wit, bodies elected by voters through a secret ballot. The Calma–Langton report envisages an abbreviated bottom-up process … from which twenty-four members will be appointed to the constitutionally-enshrined national Voice. It’s an appointment process. Representative decision-making by a majority vote of elected representatives is integral to Western governance processes. Persons in positions of leadership are…