Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has accused Opposition Leader Peter Dutton of “very insensitively” using the late Australian Indigenous music artist Galarrwuy Yunupingu as part of his push against the Voice to Parliament referendum.
Mr Albanese fronted Question Time in Parliament on Wednesday to answer why he stuck with October 14 as the chosen date for the referendum and his campaign tactics in the lead-up but instead delivered an attack on the Coalition and its “ideological dog whistling”.
“The leaders in the Yolngu people there in Arnhem Land – they were terribly offended by it, given the role Yunupingu played in the Uluru Statement from the Heart,” he told Question Time. “In this chamber, the member for Bass has had to say ‘I think the Party needs to stop ideological dog whistling’. “We had it at a time, 18 months in, which was similar to what John Howard promised in 2007 he would do – we did it to separate it away from when the elections would be.”
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