Julian Leeser’s decision comes days after former Coalition Indigenous affairs minister Ken Wyatt quit the Liberal Party altogether in protest against its rejection of the Voice to parliament.
Shadow attorney-general Julian Leeser has resigned from the opposition cabinet after the Liberal Party resolved to oppose the Voice to parliament referendum in a move that bound frontbenchers.
He added that he resigned “without rancour or bitterness and I remain a loyal Liberal, fully committed to the leadership of Peter Dutton”. “The more you look at the Canberra Voice model, the more you realise that it’s going to change our system of government forever and not for the better,” Dutton said.
At the National Press Club last week, Lesser urged for the second clause of the proposed constitutional amendment, which enables the Voice to make representations to the executive government of the Commonwealth as well as the parliament, to be deleted, arguing it was too broad and open to activist judges to expand its meaning. But he clarified on Tuesday that he would support the Voice even if he failed to secure this change.
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