The Voice to Parliament is an opportunity for Australians to “write a better chapter”, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a keynote speech in Adelaide last night.
Albanese used his speech during the Reconciliation Week visit to pour water on what he described was a scare campaign being rolled out by proponents of the No vote.
“Australians won’t succumb to their appeals to fear and even more ludicrous invitation to jump at our own shadows,” he said.
“Remember how the sky was going to fall in after the (2008 Apology to the Stolen Generations)? Please enjoy the skies as you head back out today.”
Parliament House in Canberra has meanwhile been lit up for Reconciliation Week, as MPs prepare for further debate on the Voice to Parliament.
While the majority of the Liberal Party will oppose the Voice, they are expected to support the passage of the referendum bill through Parliament, save for a group of designated “no” voters.
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This will allow the Liberal Party to have some say in articulating the “no” case that will be put to voters in an official pamphlet from Parliament House ahead of the yet-unscheduled referendum.
But Nationals leader David Littleproud, whose party will oppose the Voice en masse, has said he would not support opposition leader Peter Dutton’s claim that the advisory body would “re-racialise” the country.
“One of the things the Nationals will want to make sure of is the tone of the pamphlet is respectful,” Littleproud told the Sydney Morning Herald.
He suggested the official “no” campaign would focus more on the fear that a constitutionally-enshrined Voice would undermine the equality of Australian citizenship.
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