Afternoon Update: Ken Wyatt warns Liberals on opposing voice; NSW election race wraps up; and ‘city killer’ asteroid to pass us by

Former minister Ken Wyatt, a Yamatji man, believes it would be a mistake for the Liberals to not offer bipartisan support to a referendum. Photograph: Matt Jelonek/Getty Images

We end the week with Ken Wyatt, the former Coalition Indigenous Australians minister, warning the Liberals that opposing the Indigenous voice to parliament could add to a “global perception” they are a “racist party”.

Ken Wyatt urged the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, to allow the Liberals a conscience vote on the referendum, saying he knew of many who would back it “if given the chance”.