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Daly Cherry-Evans misses his young family in State of Origin camp but the Queensland captain insists he's "not entertaining" representative retirement just yet.

Cherry-Evans, 34, will play his 20th Origin match for Queensland in Adelaide on May 31 to qualify for the prestigious FOGS Dick 'Tosser' Turner Medal.

Maroons stalwart Josh Papalii and NSW's Jack Wighton recently retired from Origin football.

Cherry-Evans said "two things" would inform him on how long to keep going.

"Am I contributing to the Queensland team and is it right for the balance of my lifestyle? It is those two things and nothing more," he told AAP.

"I haven't entertained (Origin) retirement too much just yet but the thing that pulls me away, if anything, is my family.

"If I still feel as though I can give Queensland the best person for the (captaincy) job and at halfback I am going to keep doing it.

"When that life balance thing comes into play that is the only thing that makes me think otherwise.

"My kids' ages at the moment are 10, eight and five. As I get older, the one thing that does make me think about (retirement) is just missing my kids as they get through these really cool ages."

Cherry-Evans has taken his game to new heights. He is running for 87m per game this year for Manly, his best ever numbers. Against the Broncos recently he clocked 36 tackles, an extraordinary amount for a half.

It was that area of his game in the big moments that came to the fore in last year's win in the Origin series decider after coach Billy Slater spoke to him.

"To be honest I probably have to give Billy a wrap. Last year he challenged me coming into the series to work on my defence and I took a lot out of that. It was a challenge and there was detail around how," he said.

"I really enjoyed that and from there training-wise I have added more things to my program to make me feel better defensively. I have been really proactive and taking it into games. I feel like it is a different level of form that I have hit."

Players often say when the thrill is gone they know the end is nigh. That's not the case with Cherry-Evans.

"The call that Billy gives you before selection last night ... I just never get sick of hearing the coach says, 'Congratulations. You are our halfback and captain again'," he said.

"It is just that reassurance that, 'You are in and you are the guy that is going to lead us out'. I take so much pride in that and have so much gratitude. It still means a lot to me. All that drive is still there.

"All those factors that come with this age, when you think about retirement, of course they are there ... but at the moment I am not entertaining it.

"As for the occasion ... the game and how enjoyable camp is ... I don't think I will ever not want to be involved with what Origin is. It is just fantastic."

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More than two years after conwoman Melissa Caddick mysteriously vanished, a coroner is set to hand down her inquest findings.

The long-running coronial examination delved into the circumstances leading to the 49-year-old Sydney fraudster's disappearance in November 2020 and her mindset at the time.

Caddick's badly decomposed right foot in a running shoe washed up on a beach on the south coast of NSW three months after her disappearance, leading authorities to presume her dead.

Police and investigators from corporate regulator ASIC raided Caddick's Dover Heights home on November 11 2020.

Two days later she was reported missing by her husband Anthony Kolleti

The inquest heard from a number of key witnesses including Mr Koletti, a part-time hairdresser and DJ, who told the court he had no knowledge of her Ponzi scheme.

The officer-in-charge of the investigation into her disappearance, Detective Sergeant Michael Foscholo, told the inquiry last year he believed the fraudster took her own life.

Caddick, a self-styled financial adviser, preyed on mostly friends and family to steal up to $30 million through her investment scam, using the money to fund her lavish lifestyle before disappearing.

Her eastern suburbs mansion was sold for close to $10 million in January.

A collection of jewellery, once owned by the fraudster, has also attracted large sums, with a recent auction garnering $800,000 that will go towards paying back victims.

Deputy State Coroner Elizabeth Ryan is due to deliver her findings on Thursday morning.

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Former prime minister Scott Morrison has used a rare speech in parliament to oppose the upcoming Indigenous voice referendum.

Mr Morrison said the proposal was "ill-defined" and would create constitutional risk in enshrining an Indigenous voice to parliament and executive government.

"It is not necessary to enshrine the voice in the constitution to deliver constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians," he told parliament on Wednesday.

"That enjoys broad support.

"It is wrong to conflate the issues of the voice with constitutional recognition and treat them as inseparable.

"The impact of the voice on the operations of executive government and the parliament are also not known, presenting significant and unknown risks that cannot be easily remedied."

It was just the third time Mr Morrison has spoken in parliament since losing last year's federal election - the other occasions being after the death of the Queen and to defend himself from being censured following his multiple ministries scandal.

The former leader said the voice would create unnecessary risks to the operation of government and the executive, and would not succeed in closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.

"Permanently changing the constitution in the way the government proposes will sadly not change the desperate circumstances being experienced in so many Indigenous communities across Australia," he said.

"I understand that that is the hope of the proposal, and hope is a good thing, but hope disappointed will be crushing to the soul.

"And such disappointment can be reasonably foreseen by proceeding with the government's proposal."

Mr Morrison took aim at sporting codes and business groups that have publicly supported the referendum.

"While keenly interested in the NRL's opinion on hip-drop tackles and the six-again rule, I don't think I'll be referring to them for constitutional advice in making my decisions on this matter," he said.

While he was prime minister, Mr Morrison rejected calls to establish a voice to parliament in the constitution but backed work to set up local and regional voice mechanisms.

A proposal to have the body legislated did not proceed.

Indigenous Labor MP Marion Scrymgour said the voice was an extension of advocacy from Aboriginal leaders, not a political campaign.

"This constitution, this birth certificate which we now seek to amend in such a modest way was predicated on allowing the participating colonies to complete the project of cancelling out Aboriginal people, which they had already embarked upon," she said.

"Giving our people a real voice now is the least that this country can do to make good the wrong that has existed at the heart of our founding document."

Ms Scrymgour decried opponents of the voice who said the constitutional change would divide the country by race.

"It is disgraceful that people use that as a means to create doubt and division in the hearts and minds of people," she said.

Labor frontbencher Anne Aly said the cost of the referendum failing would be too high.

"We have a choice, whether to write a future for this country where all people walk together and where we no longer have Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (with) higher mortality rates, higher incarceration rates, lower education rates, lower school completion rates," she said.

"The other choice is that we relegate the voice of our First Nations people to the margins of history."

MPs face another long night of talks on the voice, ahead of a vote next month on the final form the referendum will take.

The lower house isn't expected to vote on the voice bill until next week when the debate will shift to the Senate.

The bill is expected to be finalised in June ahead of the referendum, which will be held between October and December.

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