Indigenous Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price warns Australians to expect “as much emotional blackmail as possible” from the pro-Voice advocates, as she points out the government has already started 'shying away from using the Voice word.'
Speaking to Sky News Australia, Senator Price said she expected the Voice to Parliament Yes campaign would be using “as much emotional blackmail as possible” in an effort to get Australians to support the proposed constitutional reform.
“They've been harping on about the Voice to Parliament for so long now. But they realise –the polls are telling them and the research is telling them – that Australians aren't in support of this detail-less voice body,” Senator Price said Senator Price said she did not know when the Albanese government was planning to hold the referendum – which could be any time between late August and late December 2023 – but she said the government needed to set a date sooner rather than later.
“So anything that they do speculate on now, you can forget about it, because ultimately those decisions aren't going to be made until after it has passed.”
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