In an interview with The Australian Financial Review, Voice campaigner Megan Davis warned that, in reporting on the Voice referendum, the media was elevating disinformation and racist attacks and was susceptible to “false balance” or “bothsidesism” – ie giving credence to arguments that lack credibility to seem fair and balanced.

Davis seems to suggest the merits of her views in the Voice debate are so obvious there shouldn’t be a debate at all; that her Yes campaign is on the side of truth and people who oppose the Voice are no better than flat-earthers whose arguments are so demonstrably flawed the media shouldn’t give them the time of day. People on one side of a political debate may regard opposing views as wrong. That doesn’t mean they get to be the arbiter of truth.