Shadow cabinet meets Monday to discuss whether to bind Coalition MPs to a possible future policy position
sources told Guardian Australia they expected the shadow cabinet and the Liberal party room would agree to this position, and allow MPs to make up their own minds on the voice.But they said the voice to parliament was a federal issue and would not be a priority for state MPs to campaign on.One Liberal MP said allowing MPs freedom to campaign freely was “the most Liberal way.”
Allowing freedom on the voice is also likely to help quell divisions inside the Liberals’ party room after John Pesutto was forced to abandon a push to expel MP Moira Deeming from the parliamentary party over her attendance at anLiberal frontbencher Evan Mulholland – who is opposed to a constitutionally enshrined voice to parliament – said he believed MPs should not be forced into a particular position.
“The idea that the state parliamentary party should have one view on a national issue is divorced from the reality of how regular punters make these decisions for themselves,” he told Guardian Australia.
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