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Labor frontbencher Anika Wells has appeared to offer a third position on the Voice in as many days.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong sparked a firestorm when she suggested the Voice, like the struggle for marriage equality, was inevitable in a podcast interview with the Betoota Talks podcast.

The Prime Minister denied that’s what she had said, insisting that the Voice is ‘gone’.

But now the Minister for Aged Care and Sport has suggested that the Voice may continue in another ‘form.

Appearing on the ABC’s News Breakfast this morning, Wells was asked directly: ‘Voice to Parliament, will it make a comeback do you think at some point?’

She responded: ‘The Voice in the form we took to the referendum is gone.

‘We respect the opinions and the votes of people, they made that very clear, but we’re always looking for ways to help First Nations people and for that policy to be tangible and credible,’ she said.