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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Antoun Issa

Afternoon Update: Coalition sowing doubt on Indigenous voice; pensioner’s $65,000 robodebt; and cathedral sex party rumours

Noel Pearson speaks during a keynote address at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra
Noel Pearson has said reconciliation in Australia could be lost forever if the referendum on the Indigenous voice to parliament fails. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

Reconciliation in this country could be lost forever if the referendum on the Indigenous voice to parliament fails, the First Nations leader Noel Pearson warned today.

Pearson was responding to Peter Dutton’s demands for more detail on the voice.

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