Former prime minister Tony Abbott says the constitution “has to belong to all of us” and it’s “wrong to say” Indigenous people overwhelmingly support the current Voice proposal.
“There are Indigenous people on both sides of this, I think it’s wrong to say that Indigenous people overwhelmingly support the proposal as it currently stands because I just don’t see any objective evidence to that
effect,” Mr Abbott said at a parliamentary committee on Monday.“The constitution belongs to all of us, it doesn’t belong to those … whose ancestors have arrived since 1788 … the constitution has to belong to all of us.”
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