The Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young and independent MP Monique Ryan have accused the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, of seeking to “undermine” faith in Australia’s electoral system by questioning longstanding rules about ballot papers in a debate about the Indigenous voice to parliament referendum.
Several members of the crossbench have accused the Coalition of a “new low” in the referendum debate, after the opposition leader and several of his MPs raised doubts about how ballots would be counted or excluded.
