Sunrise host Natalie Barr's grilling of Labor Minister Tanya Plibersek on the Voice to Parliament turned into a fiery exchange over a “scare campaign” being waged over the referendum.
The Environment Minister appeared on Channel 7’s breakfast program on Monday morning, alongside Nationals Senator and fierce No advocate Matt Canavan.
“Look, obviously we’d love the numbers to be stronger but I’m focused on the next three weeks of the campaign and I’ll be out every day talking to people about why I’m voting yes,” Ms Plibersek said. “People are saying to me that questions aren’t being answered, there are these great big motherhood statements but people are saying to me, ‘Will this have the ability to shut down mines in WA’,” Barr said.
Mr Canavan quickly jumped in, saying the Labor frontbencher’s statement was “not true” as the High Court would decide on constitutional matters. Mr Canavan then referenced Barr’s earlier questions to Ms Plibersek, saying Australians had a mounting list of “unanswered questions” about the Voice to Parliament.
“There is a rightly very high bar for change and I don’t think the government has met that because they haven’t been able to expand these issues, they haven’t provided the detail and it seems like Australians, as usual with constitutional change, are rightly cynical about the government putting changes on this.”
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