Sky News host Rita Panahi has slammed Ray Martin as 'incoherent' and 'divorced from reality' after the veteran broadcaster compared the No vote to China’s treatment of minorities.
Sky News host Rita Panahi has lambasted Ray Martin after the veteran broadcaster claimed Australia would no longer be able to criticise China's treatment of minorities if the country votes against the Voice to Parliament.Sky News host Rita Panahi has slammed Ray Martin as"incoherent" and"divorced from reality" after the veteran broadcaster compared the No vote to China’s treatment of minorities.
The veteran broadcaster also commented on the impact voting No would have on Australia’s reputation, and our ability to criticise human rights abuses elsewhere in the world – remarks that were lambasted by Panahi in her Friday night editorial. The Sky News host revealed that during his speech last week Martin had asked what the world would think if Australia voted No.
Rita Panahi slammed Ray Martin as"divorced from reality" after the veteran broadcaster said Australia would not be able to criticise China's treatment of minorities if we voted No to the Voice. Picture: Sky News Australia. "Say what now? If we don't enshrine racial privilege into the constitution, if we don't embed division and undermine equality of citizenship then we can't be critical of the Chinese committing ethnic genocide against the Uighurs?" Panahi asked.
Panahi claimed Martin was far from the only celebrity who had called for Australians to back the Voice, noting they were"not doing their cause much good".
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