The divisive language of Morrison, Abbott and Howard cannot be the template for Dutton's response to Anthony Albanese’s campaign to enshrine an Indigenous Voice to parliament in the constitution. | OPINION by George Megalogenis
Peter Dutton is just about the last politician voters would expect to measure his words to avoid giving offence to a minority group. So it was revealing that he used the opening of federal parliament on Tuesday to break with the provocative habit of his predecessor.
in the audience. At best, it had been a clumsy attempt by Morrison to drape himself in the Australian flag; at worst, a passive-aggressive reminder that the white man was in charge.Dutton inverted the Morrison script by saying: “I want to make sure that as a parliament, and as a former defence minister, we also pay our respects to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women who have served our nation in the past and continue to do so today.
The Coalition party room appears to be divided at the moment between those who want to support the Voice and those who are emboldened by the uncompromising positions of their Indigenous c. The Greens, for their part, are being encouraged into the No camp by their Indigenous colleague Lidia Thorpe. There is an echo here in the unholy alliance between the Tony Abbott-led opposition and the Greens on climate change in 2009.
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