Indigenous leader Noel Pearson likened the Nationals leader to a “kindergarten child”, then accused senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price of being caught in a “tragic redneck celebrity vortex”. | LisaVisentin
Indigenous leader and lawyer Noel Pearson has called the Nationals a “squalid little political party” and condemned leader David Littleproud as a man of “little pride” over the party’s decision to formally oppose the Voice to parliament.
Indigenous leader Noel Pearson has accused the National Party’s David Littleproud of being a “kindergarten child”.The move by the Nationals heightens the focus on the Liberal party room, which has yet to decide how it will approach the Voice. Pearson said Littleproud, who he likened to a “kindergarten child”, should hand the leadership over to Price, saying he had completely capitulated to her views on the Voice before a referendum bill had even been put to parliament and a date set for the national vote.The Nationals, he said, were “just a squalid little political party ... that is currently controlled by a kindergarten child”.
He defended the decision in a round of media interviews on Tuesday, where he said the party believed the Voice would do nothing to close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Speaking on ABC TV, he rejected the suggestion that the Nationals had imperiled the referendum.
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