Afternoon Update: Nationals spark Indigenous voice row; Daryl Maguire charged; and China’s escalating protests

There has been criticism of the National party’s decision to oppose the Indigenous voice to parliament. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

The National party’s decision to oppose the Indigenous voice to parliament has sparked a war of words today, and the comments are getting personal.

The prominent Indigenous figure Noel Pearson savaged the decision, accusing the Northern Territory Country Liberal party senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price of being drawn into a “a tragic redneck celebrity vortex”.