Former Australian Human Rights Commissioner and prominent Yes campaigner Mick Gooda says the Prime Minister and fellow Yes campaigners are at least partly responsible for the defeat of the Voice last October.

On Friday, the Gangulu man will tell the Aboriginal National Press Club in Brisbane that the refusal to amend the Voice proposal after it failed to receive bipartisan support and began to decline in the polls has resulted in his "anger" at the Yes side, according to reports in The Australian.

In a draft copy of the speech, it was reported Mr Gooda will accuse Labor of being "stuck in some form of paralysis," after, in his view, a failure to move on from the referendum and implement meaningful changes for Aboriginal people.

"So here we are, four months after the referendum and at the federal level things seem to have come to a complete standstill," the draft speech says.

"It's almost as if some form of paralysis has taken over. I have heard of vague rumours that some local or regional structure will be established; we have heard the Prime Minister's Close the Gap statement last week about more jobs in remote Australia and a revamped Community Development Program; but what we are not seeing is a narrative, a vision of where we go to from here."

The scathing Productivity Commision report into Closing the Gap resulted in a series of announcements from the Federal Government, including a new Indigenous Child Commissioner.

However, they have been criticised by progressive group GetUp! for seemingly delegating the treaty process to the states.

Mr Gooda will use his speech to ask for "a vision of where to go from here" beyond Closing the Gap statements and rhetoric and agrees with the suggestion of regional Indigenous voices. Minister Burney previously refused to get drawn into details on the proposal in the Calma-Langton report that recommended states and territories legislate regional voices and engage with them.

"Issues like regional voices are something that I know that are being very much discussed in places like the Kimberley," Minister Burney said last week. "They are discussions to be had with the community and within the structures that we need within this place."

Mr Gooda said the federal government should have pursued bipartisan support, even if this resulted in a legislated Indigenous Voice - something rejected by prominent members of the First Nations working group that advised the government. He had previously said it would be worth removing the term "executive government" from the Voice proposal if it would result in bipartisan support and an ultimately successful referendum.

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus previously proposed a "watering down" of the proposal to effectively allow the Indigenous body to only advise cabinet, rather than the executive. It was reported in The Australian that the First Nations working group rejected this outright, arguing it was "overreach."

Mr Gooda's argument also mirrors those of Indigenous academic Marcia Langton, who this week said former Prime Minister Paul Keating was correct when he said the Voice to Parliament was a "a mistake from the start" and a legislated body should have been established before a referendum.

"Paul Keating was right," Professor Langton told the Australian Financial Review. "We should have proceeded to legislate the Voice concept of regional Indigenous representation and joint decision-making before a referendum."

Mr Gooda agreed and will argue in his speech: "I am angry that we knew these things but for some reason we went with a 'crash through or crash' approach."

"Let the record show in the ­referendum, we most certainly crashed."

Last year, Mr Gooda broke with other Yes campaigners and said he was "deeply worried" about the campaign, five months out from the ultimately failed referendum. At the time he urged the Prime Minister to intervene and make the proposition less risky for undecided voters.

"I've decided to speak out, and I'm sure I will be criticised because I'm beginning to be terrified we're going to lose this," he said in an interview in May.

He was criticised by prominent Indigenous leader Noel Pearson, who said at the time Mr Gooda had previously failed to support a Voice process and was "early bedwetting."

"Mick Gooda's entire career was in the bureaucracy … it's people like him who need to hear the voices of Aboriginal people on the ground," Mr Pearson said at the time.

Mr Gooda, who is leading the Queensland truth-telling and treaty process - which has recently lost bipartisan support - will also use his speech to attempt to quell fears of compensation demands by Indigenous people during a treaty process, arguing they are misguided.

"If one of those parties [in a treaty negotiation] doesn't agree with a particular matter being included in a treaty and that position cannot be mediated, then one of two things can occur," Mr Gooda said, as reported by The Australian. "Either the matter in contention is not included in any treaty or ultimately there may not be a treaty at all."