Exclusive: Mark Speakman supports referendum yes campaign but says ‘we need to be talking now about how to pull things together after 14 October’
Liberal leader, Mark Speakman, has warned Australians to get ready for the impact of a potential no vote at the voice referendum while refusing to back a separate state-based treaty process.
Speakman, a former NSW attorney general who is voting yes, expressed concern about the impact of the debate over the federalThat would be a “setback for reconciliation”, the opposition leader told the Guardian on Thursday. “But a narrow win is also a setback for reconciliation if people feel that they’ve been punted in some way. If, as is likely, the referendum fails, there’ll be many, many disappointed people, Indigenous and non-Indigenous.”Speakman said it would then be up to everyone to get “things back on track and [address] the often disastrous Indigenous outcomes” across society.
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