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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Madeline Link

'We're out of touch': emotions high as councillor condemns Voice vote

Liberal Lake Macquarie councillor Jason Pauling at a meeting in 2022. Picture by Marina Neil

AN EMOTIONAL councillor Jason Pauling has launched into an unrelenting criticism of Lake Macquarie council's decision to publicly stand behind an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

Tensions flared in a debate that carried on for over an hour earlier this year, where the council ultimately voted to support the Voice, the Uluru Statement from the Heart and to find opportunities to raise awareness about the referendum.

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