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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Paul Karp

Peter Dutton’s bid to tank the Indigenous voice is breathtaking – and locks him in as Abbott 2.0

Sussan Ley and Peter Dutton
Federal opposition leader Peter Dutton, pictured with Sussan Ley, has turned his back on the Uluru statement and the Indigenous voice to parliament. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

After months of shadow campaigning against the constitutionally entrenched Indigenous voice, we shouldn’t be surprised that the Liberal party has formalised its opposition.

And yet it is still breathtaking to see, just days after another emphatic rejection of the Liberals – this time in the once-in-a-century byelection defeat in Aston.

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