ABC Defends Coverage of ‘The Voice’ Debate
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has stood by an interview it conducted with Indigenous leader Noel Pearson following the federal opposition’s decision not to back the Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
On April 5, opposition leader Peter Dutton announced that MPs of the centre-right Liberal Party voted “overwhelmingly” to not to support The Voice.
Sometime this year, Australians will go to the polls in a national referendum on whether to embed a 24-member advisory body into the Constitution that can make “representations” to Parliament on matters affecting Indigenous peoples.
“We’ve been clear that we don’t support [Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s] ‘Canberra Voice.’ It’s divisive, and it’s not going to deliver the outcomes to people on the ground,” Dutton told reporters in Canberra….