Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has urged the coalition to get behind the Indigenous voice to parliament, as the wording of the referendum question that will enshrine the change is set to be revealed.

Cabinet is meeting to discuss the final question on Thursday morning after the prime minister, attorney-general and Indigenous Australians minister met with the referendum working group on Wednesday night.

While the coalition has struck a deal on how the vote will be conducted, it is yet to reach a formal position on whether to support the Indigenous voice.

Mr Albanese said the constitutional reform should be above party politics.

“I can’t conceive of why a political party would seek to bind its members to a position of opposition to a referendum,” he told reporters in Queanbeyan on Thursday.

“I would urge the coalition to support a ‘yes’ case because this is about who we are as a nation and whether we have the confidence to recognise not just our full history but the opportunity that’s there in walking forward together.

“There are different views on any issue before the Australian people but this is about our nation. This is should not be a partisan issue.”

Health Minister Mark Butler said the finalising of the wording would allow for campaign efforts for the ‘yes’ vote to be ramped up.

“Everyone is determined to reach an agreed set of words so we can get out there and start putting the case to the Australian people before the referendum,” he told ABC TV on Thursday.

“Our government has been working with Aboriginal leaders to reach a final set of words to put to the Australian people and that work’s happened at the highest level.”

As part of the agreement struck between the government and opposition on how the referendum will be run, neither campaign will be publicly funded.

Taxpayers will only pick up the bill for a neutral education campaign to inform voters about the voice and the referendum but donations made to both campaigns will be tax deductible.

The mobile polling period for remote communities has been extended to 19 days and a greater number of identification methods will be accepted to enrol or update enrolment.

The bill passed the Senate with multi-party support but independent senator Lidia Thorpe abstained.

The Indigenous senator said this wasn’t a reflection of her views on the voice but a protest to the government shooting down her amendments.

Multicultural Australia chief executive Christine Castley said the referendum would be a pivotal moment for the country

“This is the next step in the evolution of us as a country and our maturity to have the conversation about who gets a seat at the table and who gets a voice in the conversations that happen around the issues that affect them,” she told ABC TV.

“It is about recognising who should have a voice in the decision making processes that frame us as a country.”

But the opposition says it remains concerned about foreign interference, with senator James Paterson saying he isn’t satisfied with the government’s prevention efforts.

“I am genuinely flabbergasted by the government’s apparent total lack of interest and concern about the risk of foreign interference in the upcoming referendum campaign,” he told AAP.

The referendum is due to be held between October and December.

Source: AAP