Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s media conference on the Voice to Parliament referendum question was historic and a moment that will “play for years”, Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell says.
The Prime Minister announced the question which would be put to Australians – A Proposed Law: to alter the Constitution to recognise the
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