Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Opposition leader Peter Dutton should spend 'less time with his dirt unit' and invited him to the Garma Festival.
Albanese used last year's event to unveil his proposed Voice referendum question, though he insists he won't reveal the date Australians will head to the polls this time around.
Albanese, who has repeatedly argued this year's referendum is unrelated to a Treaty, urged Dutton to attend Garma and "engage constructively, instead of this absolute nonsense".Source:"The leader of the opposition ... needs to spend less time on his dirt unit and more time in the red dirt of the Top End," he said.
While Dutton was absent from last year's event, then-Opposition Indigenous Australians spokesman Julian Leeser did travel alongside Albanese. His replacement, Nationals senator and Warlpiri/Celtic woman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price is not expected to travel to this year's event.Earlier on Wednesday, Albanese was pressed on whether he would move to draw up a Treaty should Australians vote for the Voice.Treaty negotiations are already underway at a state and territory level in Victoria, Queensland and the NT.
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