The Opposition Leader previously floated two additional referendums and said he wanted to change the constitution to strip citizenship from criminals.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has backtracked on a push to hold referendums to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution and create four-year fixed parliamentary terms if elected prime minister, declaring the proposals were doomed to fail without bipartisan backing.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton in the electorate of Fowler for the Assyrian New Year celebrations at Fairfield Showgrounds.Dutton said he would like to pursue a referendum to recognise Indigenous Australians in the preamble to the Constitution in an interview withpublished on Saturday, as well as a referendum to introduce four-year parliamentary terms if bipartisan agreement can be reached.
“So there will be no referendum over the course of the next term of parliament, the prime minister’s made that very clear.” This proposal would extend parliamentary terms from the current three-year period and deny prime ministers the right to decide the date of the election. Albanese said Dutton had vowed to “hold a referendum on Indigenous recognition and then walked away from it”.
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