Marcia Langton recording emerges as Voice architect says Australia is a ‘terrible, racist country’
Beleaguered Yes campaigner Marcia Langton branded Australia a “terrible, racist country” in a resurfaced recording.
The indigenous academic and voice architect made the inflammatory comments in 2017 with the audio shared on 2GB on Thursday.
“What fantasy world do they live in that would make them even ask this question?” she said.
‘Of course Australia is racist. It’s a terrible, racist country.”
2GB presenter Ben Fordham said she then said in the recording: ‘It’s only racist if you’re a person of colour. It’s not racist if you’re white.”
Professor Marcia Langton (pictured) is a member of the government’s advisory groups on The Voice
The newly unearthed comments come after Prof Langton was forced to deny calling No voters ‘racist and stupid’ at a referendum event at Perth’s Edith Cowan University this week on Sunday.
Instead, she clarified that she was “explaining how the No campaign uses fears and lies to scare No voters into voting No.”
“The No campaign claims that this referendum proposal will create apartheid and that is why it is very important to answer people’s questions and explain exactly how these types of campaigns work,” she said.
‘I absolutely deny it. There is a recording of what I said at the Bunbury meeting. And what I said is very clear.’
Audio of the meeting shows Prof Langton saying: ‘Every time the No cases make their arguments, when you start to pick it apart you end up with fundamental racism – I’m sorry to say that’s where it ends up – or sheer stupidity.
“If you look at any reputable fact-checker, everyone says the ‘No’ case is substantially false, they’re lying to you.”
On Thursday, Daily Mail Australia revealed Prof Langton had sent a message to polarizing politician Mark Latham telling him he “deserved a slow, painful death” during a heated online argument.
“You so deserve a slow, painful death and humiliating obituaries,” Professor Langton wrote of Mr Latham.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and former AFL player Michael Long walk to Parliament House after completing a 20-day walk for the Yes campaign in Canberra
The message was sent via X, formerly known as Twitter, on March 10, 2018, and Professor Langton’s account has since been deleted.
Footage has also emerged of Prof Langton accusing ‘hard No voters’ of ‘expressing racism’.
The video, broadcast on Sky News during a panel discussion at the University of Queensland in July, shows Prof Langton discussing a ‘wave’ of racism amid the Voice debate.
She said: “The wave of racist nonsense is confined to a minority of Australians.
‘Ordinary Australians think, ‘Yes, of course I’ll vote for the Voice’. And that would be, for example, 48, 49 percent.
‘Then there are the hard no voters. I hope it’s about 20 percent.
“And they are the ones spreading racism.”