The campaign for a Voice to parliament has devolved to a political battle. Anthony Albanese donned sober attire in a friendly city in quest of the high ground.
He wanted Australians to know he was doing nothing more than proposing a law to alter the constitution that was, he soothed again and again, “simple, clear and straightforward”.
South Australia was the first place in the world to grant women the right to vote and the ability to run for parliament, the first Australian state to outlaw discrimination on the basis of race or ethnicity, the first to decriminalise homosexuality, and the first to legislate on Aboriginal land rights.
And indeed, there are plenty of political consequences riding upon it, despite the absence of any looming election. Thus Albanese’s choice of black suit and sober tie and the carefully weighted words, beginning with the declaration that the Voice proposal is supported by serious Australians everywhere.
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