Anthony Albanese said the opposition leader’s remarks on the Voice referendum were “unworthy of the alternative prime minister of this nation”.
as “unworthy of the alternative prime minister of this nation” and called instead for non-Indigenous Australians to imagine they were on the other side of the gap that successive governments had failed to close.
“In 2023, imagine that people in your community are twice as likely to commit suicide as anywhere else. Imagine the rate of disease and disadvantage among your friends and neighbours is far higher than elsewhere.”He used his speech to counter the Liberal leader’s remarks earlier in the week that the Voice would “re-racialise” Australia, divide the country “in spirit and in law” and, invoking George Orwell, would make Indigenous Australians more equal than non-Indigenous Australians.
“It’s also very telling, that in his desperation, the leader of the opposition is now seeking to amplify this misinformation and all of its catastrophising and contradictions. Those exhausted cliches of Orwell and identity politics, the ongoing conceit that there is apparently no inequality in Australia now.
“Now he’s leading a campaign against constitutional recognition through a Voice, saying that he only wants symbolism, not something that will make a practical difference.
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