Liberal senator Kerrynne Liddle rejects comments made by fellow voice no campaigner Gary Johns

Liberal senator Kerrynne Liddle (front), who is campaigning against the Indigenous voice to parliament, said compared with the 1967 referendum, the October vote ‘I think will go down as the voice of division’. Photograph: Richard Wainwright/AAP

Voice referendum no campaigner and Liberal senator Kerrynne Liddle has responded to controversial comments from no campaigner Gary Johns, who last month claimed some people in Indigenous communities lived in a “stupor” and recommended they “learn English”.

“I don’t agree with some of those comments,” she says. “That’s not the way I’ve conducted discussion on voice.”