Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s celebrations over the Voice last week were “premature” as his model is currently more likely to face defeat than a landslide win at a referendum, says Sky News host Sharri Markson.
“If the Voice and Indigenous recognition in the Constitution are so deeply important to the Prime Minister, then surely he needs to do everything in his power to find a model that all Australians can agree on,” she said.
“If Albanese doesn’t want a hurtful and humiliating defeat at the referendum, he needs to sit down with the Coalition, sit down with the fiercest Voice critics and find a model that’s acceptable to all Australians and that both sides of politics can support. “Because a crushing defeat at a referendum would alienate and isolate Indigenous Australians, achieving the opposite outcome of what Albanese wants.”
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