The organisation leading the Voice push has long anticipated the moment at which it can move the debate out of Canberra and into the community.
Dismissed as a “stitch up” by opponents of Labor’s model,a six-week inquiry has backed the proposed constitutional change but not without a scathing dissenting report.
In 2023,the all-male shindig has made a strangely triumphant return.
In the days before Peter Dutton announced his party would oppose the Voice referendum,a WhatsApp group of pro-Voice Liberals popped up.
As long as political opponents are willing to go full NIMBY at every election,no councillor or aspiring MP is going to go to the barricades for higher-density housing.
Two former High Court judges were among those who gave evidence supporting the Voice at a parliamentary inquiry into the referendum on Friday.
Julian Leeser has moved to the backbench to campaign for the Voice in a move that could embolden more pro-Voice backbench Liberals to follow him.
Dutton assured MPs that the party’s opposition to the Voice would not look uncaring because the Liberals were proposing their own form of Indigenous recognition.
NSW Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg will back the Voice in a significant new argument aimed at the opposition as Peter Dutton casts doubt on the change.
As some Liberal MPs suggest narrowing the scope of the Voice to parliament could make the proposal more palatable,Megan Davis says that would just keep the status quo.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the government will take more time to consult on the details of the legislation that was pulled from the Senate this week.