No campaign leader Nyunggai Warren Mundine has revealed he pushed two people out of his referendum campaign over allegedly racist comments, as he distanced himself from under-fire No figure David Adler.
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said on Thursday that Opposition Leader Peter Dutton should disassociate himself from Adler after
Mundine said Adler’s comments were “bizarre” and, without referring directly to Adler, said questioning an Indigenous person’s cultural heritage constituted a “disgusting … racist attack”. Dreyfus, one of Australia’s most senior Jewish MPs, claimed Adler’s statements were disgraceful and said the Australian Jewish Association, run by Adler, was unrepresentative of the Jewish community.
Although Mundine distanced himself from Adler, the pair appear in photographs together that were taken in recent months, and Adler cited his relationship with Mundine as proof of his positive attitude towards Indigenous Australians.
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