Former Coalition minister, who quit the Liberals in April, says party is deploying ‘Trumpian’ tactics ahead of the referendum
Former Liberal minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt says arguments Peter Dutton has been putting forward during the voice referendum debate ‘are not factual’.Former Liberal minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt says arguments Peter Dutton has been putting forward during the voice referendum debate ‘are not factual’.
Voting no takes us nowhere. We must open our hearts to yes and the hope of a better future | Linda Burney“That was never the intent. We had the same fearmongering from my party over Mabo and the issues around the Wik decision and I’m seeing being played out again. And that concerns me that we haven’t moved on.”on how the Indigenous voice would work to the Morrison cabinet, which Dutton was a part of.
But he said if the vote fails he did not believe the government would have a mandate to legislate a voice. “I probably expected it. Because when you take a strong position on something you believe in and go the opposite way to what your leader is indicated, then you don’t expect any sort of intervention,” he said.Wyatt said he hoped the nation would undergo a truth-telling process, no matter the result, as “it’s always been an issue the true history of our country has never really been told”.
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