Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has weighed in on the leaked materials from the Yes campaign encouraging volunteers to sway undecided voters by villainising “mining billionaires”, despite taking donations from mining giants.
The 31-page “persuasive conversations” document prepared by Yes campaign volunteers was leaked to the media just days before the Prime Minister is set to announce a date for a referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament on Wednesday.contain a range of strategies designed to convince “soft” voters to back the proposed amendments to the constitutionAccording to the document, Yes23 must win over at least 38 per cent of the nation’s 4.
Opposition Indigenous Australians spokeswoman and No campaigner Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has labelled the leaked materials"disingenuous" to voters and said it demonstrated how"the Yes camp making it up as they go along”.“We’re seeing in the Yes campaign at the moment, in the material that’s appeared in The Australian newspaper today, that people are – when they’re asking reasonable questions – they’re being ‘redirected’," he told reporters on Monday morning.
The Prime Minister has called on Australians to do their research and make up their own minds. Picture: NCA NewsWire/ Sam Ruttyn.
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