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The parliament sitting is about to get underway – let the fun and games begin.
Speaking of fun and games – in case you haven’t read it yet, Sarah Basford Canales has a story on just how many questions on notice the Albanese government is yet to answer:
The Albanese government has been accused of “blatant hypocrisy” by its political opponents as more than 2,000 requests for answers remain unanswered in the Senate.
Both the opposition and the Greens are calling on the government to lift its game on transparency and live up to the integrity mandate it promised voters at the last federal election.
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Liberal MP Russell Broadbent reverses support for voice after discussions with elders in his seat
Victorian Liberal MP Russell Broadbent has reversed his support for an Indigenous voice to parliament.
Speaking to ABC Gippsland radio earlier this morning, where he previously broke party ranks to support the voice, Broadbent said he changed his mind after speaking to local elders within his seat of Monash:
They contacted me straight after the interview with you and we had a long discussion … their position was [that] it will not deliver practical outcomes.
[I said] publicly on your program, we must listen to our Indigenous people [on the] Murray Darling Basin, forest management, fire depression, all those things, and also on the voice. And my people are saying clearly no – not just one stream of my elders, but another stream as well are saying no.
Broadbent was asked about opposition leader Peter Dutton’s proposal for another referendum on constitutional recognition if the voice vote fails and the Coalition wins the next election.
Broadbent said he would have to speak with his community again before taking a stance:
That’s a long way off. That means you’ve got to be in government. That’s after the next election. You’d have to listen once again to your Indigenous people as to what they’re saying about that.
I can’t say on your program, on the one hand we listen to Indigenous people on some issues, but not this issue.
Updated at 19.59 EDT16m ago19.44 EDT
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