AusPol / 04 September 2023
The Coalition promises a second referendum
Peter Dutton says he’d hold another national vote on constitutional recognition for Indigenous Aussies if the upcoming Voice to Parliament referendum fails and his party wins the next election. He also says he’d be willing to speak to PM Anthony Albanese to discuss the Coalition’s support for legislation establishing “regional Voices” rather than a national Voice body. ‘Yes’ campaigners yesterday criticised his comments – campaigner Marcus Stewart said, “We’ve seen failures by consecutive governments, so kicking the can down the road isn’t what this is about. We need change to happen now”. Someone else who spoke up over the weekend is John Farnham, giving his support to the ‘Yes’ campaign by greenlighting the use of his iconic banger You’re The Voice in the campaign’s ads. He said he hopes it “might help, in some small way, to change the lives of our First Nations peoples for the better”.
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