Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has disputed key claims in Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney’s address to the National Press Club about the Voice and accused the Labor government of trying to “muddy the water” of the proposal.
and accused the minister of trying to “muddy the water” of the Voice proposal.
During her address, Ms Burney defended the government’s decision to push ahead with the referendum arguing the Voice needed to be constitutionally enshrined to preserve its independence. Senator Price said the minister’s claims were “another falsehood” from the Yes campaign pointing to existing commonwealth bodies which sat outside the reach of government.
“It seems like in her haste to switch up messaging to manufacture a case for the Voice, Minister Burney is happy to simply make stuff up.” As the government attempts to revive the Yes campaign, Ms Burney sought to clarify concerns around the body including its policy remit. Senator Price however argued there were solutions already being offered for similar issues and questioned why the government had not already acted.
Senator Price said the Voice proposal “does not speak for all indigenous Australians” and hit out at suggestions to the contrary. A poll conducted for the Uluru Dialogue Group by Ipsos in January showed 80 per cent of 300 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people surveyed supported the Voice. In her speech, Ms Burney also invoked the emotional story of indigenous photographer Michael Riley who died in 2004 at the age of 44 with renal failure following extensive health battles linked back to early childhood poverty.
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