Political pundit declares The Voice to Parliament is ‘OVER’ after horror Newspoll for the Yes camp
- Newspoll found no vote for 53 to 38
- Andrew Clennell says ‘it’s over’ for Yes
A political editor has declared that the Indigenous Voice to Parliament is ‘over’, after a devastating Newspoll released Monday showed a no vote of 53 to 38.
“They can’t win. It’s over,” said Sky News political editor Andrew Clennell ahead of Question Time on the Yes campaign on Monday.
So now it’s about the margin, not about embarrassing the prime minister. They are serious problems.
“When do you see the 38 to the 53 reversing in six weeks?”
Sky News political editor Andrew Clennell declared that the Voice to Parliament is ‘over’
A referendum on Oct. 14 will ask Australians whether they want to recognize Indigenous people in the constitution and enshrine a proposed advisory body called the Voice.
Successive polls have shown that support for The Voice is on the wane. Success requires a majority of voters and a majority of states voting in favor.
Minister Tony Burke said he was confident the referendum would succeed.
“(Opposition leader) Peter Dutton, I think, underestimated the goodwill of a lot of liberal voters here too,” he told ABC radio on Monday.
“There is generosity among the Australian people and as people get closer to the date, focus their minds and look at the proposal, we see something where there is nothing to lose and everything to gain.”
Mr Dutton has confirmed that he would hold a second referendum solely to enshrine recognition of the indigenous people in the constitution if the vote fails to pass.
The Newspoll showed the Voice Yes campaign trailing 38 points to 53. Advocates Anthony Albanese and Indigenous Affairs Minister Linda Burney argue above
Defending the coalition’s inability to push for constitutional recognition in nearly a decade of government, Dutton said Australia was previously not ready for the issue.
“We’re going to spend about $450 million to ask a question on October 14 that he (Anthony Albanese) knows will fail,” he told Nine’s Today.
“I just don’t think he’s going to shift the votes unless he gives the details.”
Nationals leader David Littleproud said the majority of the nation would support constitutional recognition because “our country has grown in those nine years.”
He wants the government to split the issue or withdraw the referendum, saying advisory bodies have failed rural and regional Australia in the past.
“We live with the scars of that every day. That’s where it failed and that’s where the gap hasn’t been closed,” Littleproud told reporters in Canberra.
“The Voice takes it a step too far, because it’s only about more bureaucracy and not a better one.”
The polls also show that support for the coalition has reached its highest level since last year’s federal election, with the opposition now leading at 37 per cent, to Labour’s 35 per cent in the primaries.
Labor leads in terms of two parties: 53 percent to 47 percent.