Liberal leader says he will speak to the MP about her claim that Indigenous people should be grateful for ‘wonderful things’ enabled by colonisation
, a co-chair of Victoria’s First Peoples’ Assembly, who said the consequences of colonialism are still being felt through the high rates of Indigenous incarceration and child removal.
McArthur is considered a key member of the conservative faction and voted against Pesutto earlier this month when another MP, Moira Deeming, was expelled from the party room. Pesutto said he was yet to decide how he would vote in the referendum, which will be sometime between October and December. He previously said he was waiting for a parliamentary report on the Voice before making up his mind.“I know this is a very important national issue. I understand the symbolic importance [of] this issue. That, however, has to be balanced against the responsibilities I [have], as Victoria’s alternative premier,” he said on Tuesday.
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