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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Paul Karp

Liberal senator Andrew Bragg will publicly lobby Peter Dutton to embrace Indigenous voice

Liberal senator Andrew Bragg on a phone call during the vote for the Climate Change Bill in the Senate chamber at Parliament House, Canberra
Liberal senator Andrew Bragg has declared the Indigenous voice “isn’t a Labor project, it’s an Australian project”. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

Liberal MP Andrew Bragg will publicly lobby opposition leader Peter Dutton to embrace the Indigenous voice to parliament, labelling it a “liberal solution” to reconciliation.

On Wednesday, Bragg will release a position paper giving “five reasons the voice is right”, rejecting some of the central concerns of voice opponents that it discriminates on race or will fail like the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (Atsic).

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