As Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pursues bipartisan support for a Voice to Parliament in the coming referendum, the deputy Liberal leader makes some of the most critical remarks of the Voice yet.
to the Liberal Party as it seeks their support, including a reversal of a plan to drop the referendum tradition of mailing out a pamphlet detailing both the yes and no cases for the referendum.— saying that should be determined by parliament after the vote.
"I've sat down with Peter Dutton on no less than six occasions, and what I've done repeatedly is not be prescriptive about what we're putting forward," Mr Albanese said. "I see, in Question Time every day, they have an opportunity to ask questions about detail. That doesn't happen," he said.
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