The Voice to Parliament is a “fundamental issue” and goes through “who we are as a nation”, according to former Labor advisor Eamonn Fitzpatrick.
“There are two ways to approach it, you do all the deal upfront in terms of a campaign, and you run the risk of people not being able to grasp and get consensus on the basic issue,” he told Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell.
“But you’ll see the Prime Minister come back to it time and again; the basic question is one of fairness and doing the right thing, and do we enshrine it in the constitution.”
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