Former deputy prime minister John Anderson says the government supports “race provisions” in the constitution but reimplementing the alcohol ban in the Northern Territory is “race-based”.
“Here is a senior Labor person that says, ‘oh no, we will not have anything addressed in this race-based issue’ here of a crisis in the community, but it’s alright to have race provisions in the federal constitution,” he told Sky News host
Peta Credlin.“I think it’s an extraordinary contradiction, and it points to something, which is that if we were to go ahead with the Voice as proposed … we need to be very mindful that progressives won’t take the recommendations of anyone.”
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