BREAKING: The Liberal Party will oppose the government's proposed model for the Indigenous Voice to Parliament. The Liberals will argue for a legislated approach instead of the government's model of a constitutionally enshrined Voice. MORE: 9News
Opposition Leaderwill formally announce the position on the issue later today following a two-hour party room meeting in Canberra.
Rather than supporting the government's proposed model of a constitutionally enshrined Voice, the Liberals will instead argue for a legislated approach, however that position is not binding on backbenchers, as is party policy.Peter Dutton and the Liberal Parrty will not support the Indigenous Voice to parliament in this year's referendum.
The Uluru Statement from the Heart, the 2017 petition that called for the Voice to give First Nations peoples better representation, explicitly calls for the body to be "enshrined in the Constitution", rather than legislated., the Liberals will work with the government to reach a compromise over the wording of the referendum,, at the end of a parliamentary inquiry into the wording in May.
Albanese had previously called on Dutton and the opposition to support the yes vote for the referendum, which is likely to be held between October and December. The Nationals, the Liberals' junior Coalition partner, announced last year they will be opposing the Voice.
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