Independent MP Monique Ryan and Liberal frontbencher Jane Hume have traded blows over the government’s decision not to fund both sides of the Voice referendum debate.
The government has still not given further detail on the model of the proposed body after it moved ahead with draft legislation on the machinery of the imminent referendum.
“There isn’t even an official pamphlet going out on the internet that’s what this legislation suggests is that we don’t need a pamphlet at all,” Senator Hume told ABC Radio Melbourne on Thursday. The independent MP for Kooyong said the onus was on Parliamentarians themselves to disseminate pamphlets or information in support of either side of the debate.
The debate then descended into back-and-forth quips over the Liberal Party’s lack of a clear position on the referendum, with Senator Hume firing back: “It’s very premature of Monique to suggest that she knows what my position is on the Voice at all”.
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