Months after Lidia Thorpe left the party over her opposition to the Voice, the party is still deeply divided on the referendum.
Greens leader Adam Bandt is stepping up his support for the Voice despite a call from his party’s Indigenous network to vote No or abstain on the referendum, widening an internal divide that has hampered the party’s ability to campaign for the change.
While most federal Greens have called publicly for a Yes vote and some have actively helped the Yes23 campaign, Victorian senator Janet Rice has not spoken in favour of the Voice on Facebook or X amid dozens of social media posts since the beginning of September. When supporters of the Voice marched in Sydney on the Walk for Yes gathering on September 17, they heard from“Across the country, Greens supporters are showing the most enthusiastic support for Yes,” Bandt told this masthead.
The survey put a special question to voters who opposed the Voice – a subset of 2509 respondents – and found that 75 per cent thought the Voice went too far and only 5 per cent said it did not go far enough, with the rest unsure.Greens officials defended Senator Rice and other federal MPs who have posted nothing or little about the Voice over recent weeks, saying Rice made a financial commitment that funded 100,000 Yes23 leaflets.
The Greens member for Brisbane, Stephen Bates, said he and his team had called hundreds of potential volunteers and hosted “phone banks” to call voters, as well as campaigning for months.
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