The message Tom Elliott wants federal and Queensland public service staff to hear after the Voice Referendum

Tom Elliott has said federal and Queensland public service staff who have taken leave from work over the result of the Voice to Parliament referendum need to “build a bridge and get over it.”

Staff who are upset by the results have been allowed to take five days off with full pay.

“It is the most extraordinary thing, I mean, where is the resilience of the current-day generation?” he said.

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