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Morning everyone. Julian Leeser, who quit the shadow frontbench in order to support the yes vote on the Indigenous voice referendum, sat down with our politics team to explain why he jumped ship. He says Peter Dutton’s suggestions about symbolic recognition just won’t do.
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