The billionaire has authorised $2 million of advertisements that warn a vote for the Voice will lead to financial costs for struggling Australian families.
Advertisements bankrolled by mining magnate Clive Palmer in the final days of the referendum campaign will warn a vote for the Voice will lead to financial costs for struggling Australian families.
“Don’t think you won’t be forced to ‘pay the rent’. It’s already happening in Western Australia,” the ad states. “Australia. Keep it together. Vote NO.”Yes campaigners have also repeatedly stated the Voice has nothing to do with reparations. Indigenous leader Noel Pearson said on Wednesday the No side was employing the same scare tactics used during the native title debate in the 1990s.
The federal opposition used the contentious state laws as evidence of the onerous and expensive policies that could be sought by the Voice. Theto boost support for Albanese at the last federal election, at which the Coalition lost several seats to Labor in the state.
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