Australia will take a small but important step towards an Indigenous Voice to parliament Thursday with the tabling of a significant piece of legislation.

On Tuesday evening at a National Indigenous Times event, Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney announced her intention to table the Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Amendment Bill in the House of Representatives before parliament breaks for the end of the year.

"It will put the mechanics or the framework of the referendum in place," Ms Burney said.

The Bill will be tabled today, 1 December.

It follows heated debate sparked by the federal Nationals' announcement they will not support the Voice.

Nationals leader David Littleproud, alongside Country Liberal Party senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, questioned the capacity of the Voice to effect positive change

However, rifts have emerged within the Party at both individual and state levels.

On Tuesday federal Nationals MP Andrew Gee expressed his disagreement with the decision.

"I have been a long time supporter of an Indigneous Voice to Parliament," Mr Gee posted to social media.

"I wasn't present for the Nationals' party room meeting on the issue. While I respect the opinion of my colleagues, I'm still a supporter."

The Member for Calare added that the Voice needs "heck of a lot of hard work" to ensure Indigenous people in remote and regional areas are represented.

WA Nationals' leader Mia Davies appeared to defy the federal party's position.

"I'm respectful of the decision their party room has made, it doesn't necessarily align to how the Nationals in Western Australia have approached this issue," she told ABC Radio Perth.

"I agree with a lot of the things that he said in terms of the pragmatic and the practical things that we need to do to close the gap and empower Aboriginal Australians. Where we part ways here in Western Australia is I don't think it's one or the other, I think we can do both.

"We can have a conversation about the Voice, and we can also talk about practical and on-ground investment right now to support Aboriginal communities and individuals."

Ms Burney remains confident of a national consensus.

"I believe in the Australian people. I believe in the decency of the Australian people and I also believe that we will prevail in that ballot box," she said.

She cited the lack of progress made for First Nations people in recent decades as evidence of the need for the Voice.

"There is something that we cannot ignore everyone, and that is whatever we've been doing for the last 20 or 30 years has not worked," she said.

"Still with retention rates in school, kidney disease, years incarceration, there has to be a better way and a different way of looking at these issues.

"Surely a representative, permanent voice in the Australian Constitution, that will have the role of not usurping the parliament but advising the parliament and the executive Government on better ways to do things.

"I truly believe that we, as a nation, are on the cusp of something very different."