Sky News host Liz Storer says teaching children about the Indigenous Voice is “state propaganda” and it is pointless because they “can’t vote”.
“What we’re hearing from these leaders, this is state propaganda, plenty of parents send their kids to school not banking on this kind of education,” Ms Storer told Sky News host Chris Kenny.“They can’t vote, ok, so the idea of filling them in on the Voice or what little there is to tell them about it – what’s the end goal here?
“Why are you telling little kids, who certainly had nothing to do with any of the atrocities that took place, why do you want to have this even playing around in their little minds?”
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