Opposition leader faces a coterie of hardcore voice opponents in the Liberal party room, but saying no, and Australians voting yes, is a risk I wouldn’t want to take
enshrined in the constitution. If this caught you by surprise, let me walk you through the internals.
There’s something else contextual to understand. There are parliamentarians implacably opposed to progress on constitutional recognition and First Nations representation. That’s a good part of the reason we keep talking about this stuff, walking in circles for a couple of decades, and getting nowhere.
Conservatives in the Nationals party room have harboured suspicion for months that Littleproud might seek to engineer them into a position of supporting the voice, or at least running dead. Conservatives had no intention of allowing that to happen. If Littleproud intended to indulge his comparative progressivism on this particular issue, then they intended to run him down.
People familiar with the dynamic say as parliament entered its final fortnight for the year, the Nationals were getting edgy. Some MPs were worried the Liberals might be close to landing a conscience vote position on the voice, which might render a hard no position more politically fraught for the Nationals.
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