Opposition Chief Peter Dutton says he needs a line-by-line description of what the Indigenous Voice to Parliament would entail earlier than he boycotts it later this 12 months.
In a letter addressed to Anthony Albanese however surprisingly despatched to Information Corp, Dutton mentioned there was much more mileage he wanted to extract from the problem earlier than he formally rejects it.
“When that is finally tabled in Parliament, I’ll arise, flip my again and stroll out on it, in a symbolic ‘fuck you’ to Indigenous Australians. That’s my observe document with some of these issues. However that’s nonetheless a approach off, and there’s nonetheless a good bit extra media protection I can get out of this earlier than then,” Dutton defined.
“So till such time that I’ve the chance to stroll out in Parliament, till that time, I’ll make performative calls for that the Prime Minister present extra element than the 264-page report already offered by the joint choose committee. I believe that’s what all affordable Australians anticipate of me as Opposition Chief”.
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