Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the Voice to Parliament came from the “heart” of Australia and Australians will unite to “build a better future” for the country by voting yes.
“This is not the government’s proposal … this is developed over more than a decade, the Uluru Statement from the Hear, was a product of five years of consultation including a constitutional convention of first nations people.
“People gathered from all around Australia, in the heart of Australia – Indigenous Australians to ask for as the Uluru Statement from the Heart says in 1967 we were counted, in 2017 we seek to be heard – that is what this is about. “Australians will I believe, come together and build a better future, Peter Dutton has turned up with a sledgehammer because that’s all he has in his toolkit.”
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Voice to Parliament is something Australians ‘don’t understand’The Voice to Parliament is something Australians “don’t understand” the impact of in government policy, says Liberal Senator Hollie Hughes. “We’re looking at something that’s going to be enshrined in the constitution that we don’t understand, we don’t know which policy areas won’t be impacted,” she told Sky News Australia. “Is this going to impact national security, is this going to impact energy policy? “No one can answer which policy areas won’t be impacted because every policy area impacts all Australians.”
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Prime Minister ‘wasn’t willing’ to listen to the Voice of Indigenous: DuttonOpposition Leader Peter Dutton says he is not supporting the Voice as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese “wasn’t willing” to listen to the voice of Indigenous on the ground after he “refused to turn up” to Laverton. “I’ve gone out into the communities when the prime minister refused to turn up into Laverton… it was very clear he wasn’t willing to listen to the voice of those indigenous people on the ground,” Mr Dutton said. “That’s why we shouldn’t be voting for a divisive Canberra voice, that's the issue, we should be listening to what people say on the ground.”
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‘Australia deserves better than that’: Albanese on Liberal rejection to VoicePrime Minister Anthony Albanese says “Australia deserves better than that” after the Liberals rejected the Voice to Parliament referendum. “They made their position clear last year, without even bothering to look at the details,' he said in a media conference on Thursday. 'You’ve had this pretence from Peter Dutton, and then a preemptive announcement yesterday because of the Aston by-election outcome driven by the internal politics of the Liberal party. “This is an issue that has been around for a long period of time, John Howard when he was prime minister, going back to last century, talked about constitutional recognition, there have been more than ten enquiries, including enquiries established by the former coalition government, in which Peter Dutton was a senior minister.'
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Dutton says his priority remains establishing a ‘local and regional’ VoiceOpposition Leader Peter Dutton has confirmed his priority remains fixed on establishing a “local and regional” Indigenous Voice to Parliament. The Liberals outlined on Wednesday their formal position on the Voice, announcing the Party supports a legislated Voice as opposed to a constitutionally-enshrined Voice. “The Prime Minister has been very clear that he says no to a local and regional Voice,” Mr Dutton said during a media conference on Wednesday. “We’ve been clear that we don’t support his Canberra Voice; it’s divisive and its not going to deliver the outcomes to people on the ground.”
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