Opinion

The economy is about to walk onto centre stage

It is going to get harder to talk about the Voice when the government staring down the barrel of a policy-induced recession.

Laura TingleColumnist

Jun 23, 2023 – 4.39pm

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It’s been noisy in Parliament House these past few weeks, what with culture wars weaponising sexual assault with the aim of gaining a political scalp, and a deteriorating debate in no-man’s land on an Indigenous Voice to parliament.

Which is possibly why two significant developments that point to much of what will shape the country – as well as the political debate – in coming months haven’t really been noticed or fully understood.

Laura Tingle is chief political correspondent for the ABC's 7.30 program. She is the staff-elected director of the ABC.