TV host Ally Langdon’s scathing A Current Affair interview with Yes supporter and veteran journalist Ray Martin has earned the pair a spot on the list of reasons the county voted No to the Voice.
Prominent author and former journalist Martin Flanagan collated the list in an open letter to the 39 per cent of Australians who voted Yes in Saturday’s referendum.
The debate between Langdon and Ray Martin on October 5 saw her take him to task over calling “ignorant” No voters “dinosaurs”. Langdon, who repeatedly cut off Martin during the explosive interview, cited the neo-Nazi flag-burning video threat to Indigenous Senator Lidia Thorpe, and suggested the Voice to Parliament debate “needs to calm down and get back to being respectful”.“This is a really important referendum. And I did not call No voters those words, I was talking about the slogan. ‘If you don’t know, vote No.’ That is an endorsement of ignorance. If you don’t know, find out, do not vote ignorantly.
The writer described it as is “the second most epoch defining campaign slogan I have seen in my adult lifetime, the other being ‘It’s Time’ in 1972.”Martin said he didn’t, and would say it again. Picture: Nine/A Current Affair“It’s Time” was a slogan used by the Labor Party under Gough Whitlam during that year’s federal eelection, which played on the need for change after 23 years of Liberal coalition government.
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