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The Voice is a national disaster

It can never close the gap

29 July 2023

9:00 AM

29 July 2023

9:00 AM

Emerging from a long mainstream media honeymoon, Anthony Albanese no doubt finds it difficult to believe his  Voice referendum is as doomed as this column said it was when he first announced it.

What he is proposing is nothing less than a national disaster.

Ian Callinan, a strongly federalist High Court judge, foresees ‘a decade or more of constitutional and administrative law litigation’.

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