Pro-voice Liberal Andrew Bragg calls for referendum delay to 2024 to ‘save the concept’

Liberal senator Andrew Bragg says there is not enough ‘middle ground’ in the Indigenous voice to parliament referendum debate and the vote should be delayed until 2024. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

One of the few Liberal MPs who support the Indigenous voice to parliament has appealed to the government to delay the referendum to next year.

Andrew Bragg, who is campaigning for a yes vote, said not enough “middle ground” had been established and he feared that lack of consensus had doomed the referendum to failure.