Columnist Justin Smith says the Indigenous Voice to Parliament is a “bloody mess” as people are crying out for information from politicians without finding any.
“The whole thing is just a bloody mess, and this actually doesn’t help because we’re crying out for information because we’re not getting any information,” Mr Smith told Sky News host Chris Kenny.
“We’ve got politicians running the whole show, so we don’t know what’s going on, so we don’t need less information here, we need a little bit more.”
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