Good afternoon. Another Liberal MP has broken ranks over the party’s opposition to the Indigenous voice to parliament. Julian Leeser, the shadow attorney general and shadow minister for Indigenous Australians, resigned from the Liberal frontbench today, saying the “time has come for a voice”.
In other news, Julian Assange has received a major shot of support with 48 Australian politicians signing an open letter urging his extradition to the US be scrapped. And are AI news readers the way of the future? “Fedha” the virtual news presenter debuts in Kuwait.