The Australian’s Editor-At-Large Paul Kelly discusses the importance of bipartisanship in the Voice to Parliament referendum.
“It helps the referendum be carried and I think in that sense the Prime Minister is taking a pretty big gamble here; he’s assuming … that he can get this referendum up without bipartisanship,” Mr Kelly told Sky News host Sharri Markson.
“If we are going to put a Voice into the constitution and a Voice advising the parliament and the executive government then at the end of the day there has to be bipartisanship to make it work.”
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