Anthony Albanese challenged Opposition Leader Peter Dutton to attend the Garma festival as he gave equivocal responses when repeatedly asked if his government supported a treaty.
in a broader agenda involving a treaty that could include reparations - the latest tactic in the opposition’s campaign to sway voters in the referendum.whether he supported a treaty, Albanese continually stressed the upcoming referendum was about nothing more than the creation of the Voice advisory body and recognising first Australians in the constitution.
“Well where does it say that? It doesn’t even say that in the Uluru Statement from the Heart. It doesn’t say that, it doesn’t speak about the Commonwealth negotiating treaties. It doesn’t say that,” he said. Albanese expressed hope Australians would back a referendum that is core to his government’s first-term agenda.
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