Voice to Parliament advocate blasts National Party’s ‘strange, problematic’ stance

An advocate for the Indigenous Voice to Parliament has hit out at the National Party’s “strange” position on the referendum.
On Monday, Federal Nationals leader David Littleproud told a press conference his party would oppose an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
Nationals frontbrencher Andrew Gee has since broken ranks with his colleagues, saying he’ll support a Voice to Parliament, and the West Australian Nationals have also backed the referendum.
Director of From The Heart, the campaign to secure a constitutionally-enshrined voice to Parliament, Dean Parkin, says the Federal Nationals’ stance “problematic”.
“They actually haven’t taken the time to wait for the debate to evolve, for the information to come forward. They’ve basically taken a very pre-emptive, quite a strange decision to say they’re going to stand in opposition to this until the detail is presented and I think that very much runs against the spirit in which this whole enterprise has been proposed,” he told Neil Mitchell.
Press PLAY below to hear the ‘actual real point’ Mr Parkin thinks the debate around a Voice to Parliament is missing
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