Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has taken aim at the Yes campaign ahead of the Voice to Parliament referendum, criticising the techniques supporters have used to encourage the Australian public.
The Liberal leader said while everyone wants to help Indigenous Australians, Ms Burney was “only making a bad situation worse for the Yes case” through “this continuous misleading of the Australian public”.
“As we know, the hand-picked people on the referendum working group, handpicked by the Prime Minister, they’re out there saying that the Voice by design will have an influence on every element of government work,” Mr Dutton told reporters in Adelaide. Ahead of the National Press Club appearance Mr Dutton said the Indigenous Australians Minister “needs to be honest instead of trying to pull wool over the eyes of the Australian public.”
Mr Dutton continued to stress the importance of focusing on supporting Indigenous Australians in regional areas, amid ongoing conjecture as to what role local and regional voices may play. “I want to listen to those voices. And that’s why I visited there and frankly I think the Prime Minister instead of flying his jet across these communities on his way to another international fora, he’d be better off to stop the plane, roll his sleeves up and get out to real people.”
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