Shadow Trade and Tourism Minister Kevin Hogan says Former minister for Indigenous Australians Ken Wyatt has “done what he thinks he needs to do” after he quit the Liberal party over their rejection of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament proposal.
“We have Indigenous Senator Jacinta Price who’s very anti the Voice so the Indigenous
community themselves are divided on it – I hear Ken, I respect Ken – he has a different opinion.
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