Prominent No campaigner Nyunggai Warren Mundine is set to withdraw from the NSW senate race.
Leading No campaigner Nyunggai Warren Mundine will quit the race for the NSW Liberal senate position vacated by former foreign minister Marise Payne.with Indigenous Australians and whether the date of Australia Day should be changed were exposed as contradictory to his anti-Voice colleagues.
Warren Mundine is pulling out of the race for a NSW senate seat vacancy created by Marise Payne’s decision to quit politics.on Sunday that he supported a treaty with Indigenous people and wanted to change the date of Australia Day, two agenda items the No side has claimed the Yes camp would pursue through a Voice to parliament. Mundine’s comments caused angst among conservative NSW Liberals who were supporting his Senate run.
The prominent No campaigner, who stood for the NSW seat of Gilmore for the Liberal Party in the 2019 election, confirmed to this masthead he planned to withdraw.Mundine’s decision was also influenced by the difficulty of untangling himself from business contracts with Australian government entities.
Other conservative-aligned candidates include Afghanistan-born, anti-Taliban activist Mina Zaki, a cyber expert at consulting firm KPMG, barrister Ishita Sethi, lawyer Pallavi Sinha, former NSW Liberal MP Lou Amato and Monica Tudehope, who has previously worked as Dominic Perrottet’s policy director.
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