Tasmanian Liberal Premier Jeremy Rockliff says it is high time the nation tried a different approach to addressing Indigenous disadvantage.
saying it was “high time” the nation tried a different approach to addressing Indigenous disadvantage.
This caused shadow attorney-general and Indigenous affairs spokesman Julian Leeser to quit the frontbench, so he could advocate for the Voice. Another senior moderate, Senate leader Simon Birmingham, said he would not campaign against the Voice but would not vote for it at the ballot box. Mr Dutton supports only the constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians and believes a regional and local voice should be enacted by legislation, instead of having a national Voice enshrined in the Constitution.Mr Rockliff was speaking alongside Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Hobart on Monday at a gathering to launch former Liberal MP Pat Farmer’s ultramarathon in support of the Voice.
“I was around when the republic referendum was held, and at that time, there were a lot of people who said, ‘I support a republic, but not this model, I support change, but not this precise thing that’s being put forward. I’ll wait for the next one’,” he said.“It’s now a quarter of a century later. There’s not about to be another prospective republican referendum in – certainly not in the foreseeable future.
“It’s not going to be held in Christmas week, and it’s not going to be held on AFL grand final day or the October long weekend, that narrows down the dates,” Mr Albanese said.
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