Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong also spoke of her distress at some of the language used in the referendum debate.
Anthony Albanese has emphatically predicted Australia will vote Yes in the Voice referendum as Penny Wong revealed her distress witnessing “racism” in what she called the worst public discourse since the Mabo debate in a secret recording made of the pair at a dinner last week.
Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese addressed a Left faction meeting last week.In his most declarative comments to date, the prime minister predicted the Yes case for constitutional change would succeed, telling his audience at Brisbane’s Howard Smith Wharves last Thursday night: “I firmly believe that not only can we, we will seize the opportunity and vote Yes.”attacks on Voice campaigner and unionist Thomas Mayo, revealing“It has always been thus.
Senator Cash said: “These comments appear to confirm that Senator Wong does not like it when the Albanese government is held to account for their poor decisions. We saw in the last sitting fortnight her refusal to answer questions about how their proposed Voice to Parliament will work and whether they still support a Treaty.”
He promised his former factional colleagues that he remained true to their core beliefs and that he would rejoin once his leadership finished.
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