‘Emotional blackmail’: Nationals oppose Voice to parliament in blow to referendum | jamesmassola AngusGthompson micksfoley
The Nationals will oppose an Indigenous Voice to parliament, dealing a significant blow to the referendum campaign.
The Nationals’ decision significantly increases the likelihood that at least some members of the Liberal party room will also campaign publicly for a “no” vote in the referendum and the risk of it failing.would support marginalised people, it risked dividing the nation along the lines of race, and that it wasn’t racist to oppose the Voice.“What we need now is practical measures, not an idea that lacks complete and utter detail and based on emotional blackmail,” she said.
, claiming there is a lack of detail attached to the proposal, despite a huge volume of work having already been done on the proposal for the previous government. “This Voice model is about empowering the elites to demand a transfer of power and nothing more than that,” Price said. “This Voice model is not recognition, let’s not get the two confused here ... this is an entire bureaucratic country we don’t have details on.”
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