Just a few months ago when Julian Leeser was campaigning for the Indigenous Voice to parliament and against Peter Dutton, the Canberra press gallery couldn’t get enough of the Liberal backbencher. After he resigned from the Coalition frontbench to support the Voice, Leeser was featured in dozens of news stories on the ABC and the Labor Party couldn’t stop talking about him.
On the day of his resignation Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney said, “Julian Leeser has shown strength today in putting his principles ahead of politics”.
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John Roskam is a senior fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs. Connect with John on Twitter.
