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, spoke on Sky News this morning. He said he would not change his position on opposing the Indigenous voice to parliament, and compared it to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, which he said had failed. Littleproud: We’ve gone down this path before and it’s failed … This is about putting in another layer of bureaucracy, a lie of bureaucracy that will get in the road … Putting another layer of bureaucracy to listen to a few that are sent to represent vast communities over a large geographic area didn’t work before.We should be taking the bureaucracy to these people instead of these people coming to the bureaucracy and Canberra.
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