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political reporter Jake Evans

Noel Pearson swipes Mick Gooda after expressing fears Voice to Parliament losing popular support

Cape York leader Noel Pearson (pictured) has slammed Mick Gooda's "early bedwetting" over the Voice to Parliament referendum wording. (ABC News: Tim Leslie)

One of Australia's most prominent Indigenous leaders and an architect of the Uluru Statement has launched a broadside against a fellow campaigner, dismissing fears that the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament is losing popular support.

In an interview on the ABC, Noel Pearson turned his poetic invective against Voice supporter and former Indigenous social justice commissioner Mick Gooda, who on Thursday said the referendum campaign needed to make compromises to stop support slipping further.

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