Simon Birmingham has shut down calls for him to resign from the shadow cabinet over the Voice but said he will not be campaigning for a no vote ahead of the referendum.
Mr Birmingham, the shadow foreign minister, has also told Sky News Australia he will not be actively campaigning for a no vote in the Voice to Parliament referendum. as shadow attorney-general and shadow Indigenous Australians minister after being at odds with the Liberal Party's position on the Voice.
"And I will continue to listen very carefully to what he has to say and to how he engages in the topic and I would urge the Prime Minister and the government to do likewise." "I recognise that there are a difference of opinions in relations to arguments for the Voice and against. "Every Australian is going to enjoy the normal secret ballot of this type of process," Mr Birmingham responded.
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