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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Antoun Issa

Afternoon Update: emotional PM reveals voice question; police knock Lidia Thorpe to the ground; and a new long-distance kissing machine

Anthony Albanese
Prime minister Anthony Albanese announcing the wording of the referendum on the Indigenous voice to parliament. Photograph: Reuters

Good afternoon. More than 250 years after European colonisation and settlement of this continent, the Australian people will be asked to recognise First Nations in the constitution by way of a voice to parliament.

Flanked by the nation’s most senior Indigenous leaders, the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, choked back tears at an emotional press conference in Canberra today, where he revealed the wording of the referendum question:

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