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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Daniel Hurst

Mundine calls for Australia Day date change and backs treaties despite opposing voice

Warren Mundine is a leading spokesperson for the no campaign against the Indigenous voice referendum.
Warren Mundine is a leading spokesperson for the no campaign against the Indigenous voice referendum. Photograph: Richard Wainwright/AAP

Leading no vote spokesperson Warren Mundine has called for the date of Australia Day to be changed, and for multiple treaties with Australia’s First Nations, despite his own campaign raising these as potential “radical” consequences of voting for an Indigenous voice to parliament.

Mundine, who founded the Recognise a Better Way group opposing the voice, also hinted on Sunday that fellow no vote advocate Gary Johns had been told to keep quiet, after a backlash over Johns’ comments suggesting blood tests for access to welfare, and that some people in Indigenous communities lived in a “stupor”.

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