'The majority of my colleagues, it would be pretty much a firm no,' said Jason Wood ahead of a snap party room meeting to decide the Liberals’ stance on the Voice to parliament. auspol
Liberal shadow ministers will thrash out the opposition’s Voice stance in a hastily convened early morning meeting on Wednesday as the party prepares to wave through the government’s bill allowing the referendum to take place.
Queensland conservative Liberal MP Garth Hamilton said further details on the Voice clearly were not coming and that Opposition Leader Peter Dutton should stop asking Labor for more information. Liberal MP Jason Wood said that if asked to come to a position on the Voice on Wednesday, most party MPs would be “a firm no”.Jason Wood, the Liberal MP for Melbourne’s outer east seat of La Trobe, said while he was open to being convinced on the Voice, he would need to have his concerns satisfied around the potential for High Court challenges.
Some MPs believe the party should wait until May to decide its position, after a parliamentary inquiry has had time to examine the government’s proposed constitutional alteration. Asked if the party would stop asking for further information on the referendum, Archer responded: “I should hope so, there has never been a lack of detail.”
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