In a pitch to middle Australia and undecided voters, the prime minister emphasised the Voice could not overrule parliament and promised it would ‘end the waste’.
not to “close the door” to improving the lives of Indigenous Australians by denying them a Voice as he launched a historic six-week dash to the October 14 referendum.
Top No leaders denounced the Voice following Albanese’s announcement, with Coalition Indigenous Affairs spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price claiming Albanese consistently ignored Indigenous voices, campaigner Warren Mundine holding Albanese responsible for “horrible bigotry” exposed in the Voice debate, and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton accusing the prime minister of dishonesty and evasion.
Malinauskas said South Australia had taken big political leaps in the past, including when it became the first jurisdiction in the world to grant women the vote.“If our forefathers and mothers can say Yes to universal franchise, if our great-grandparents can say Yes to waves of migration, if our grandparents can say Yes in [the] 1967 [referendum], if our parents can say Yes to land rights, then this generation is capable of saying Yes to an advisory committee,” he said.
South Australia, the launch site of the 1967 Indigenous referendum campaign, shapes as a key battleground state alongside Tasmania and NSW.
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