The opposition has left the door open to constitutional recognition for First Nations Australians if the Yes campaign is not successful.
"Yes, I believe very strongly that is the right thing to do," he said on Sunday.He said it would "divide the country down the middle" and fail to provide practical outcomes.On Saturday, Anthony Albanese took aim at "fear campaigns" about the voice.
"This campaign is going to be won by one-on-one conversations with people, making sure that the fear campaigns which are there no more real than the fear campaigns that were there about the Apology to Stolen Generations, about Mabo, about native title, about marriage equality, about all of these issues," he told supporters in Canberra.
The question to be put in the referendum is: "A Proposed Law: to alter the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Do you approve this proposed alteration?" If the referendum vote is successful, the government will then design the specific form of the voice, which will be implemented via legislation passed by and debated in parliament.
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