Allison Langdon hits Anthony Albanese with awkward Voice truth
The PM sat down with Ally Langdon on A Current Affair to discuss the Voice when she hit him with an awkward truth about the referendum.
Anthony Albanese has been confronted on national television over claims that voters “don’t get it” when it comes to the Voice.
A Current Affair host Allison Langdon warned the Prime Minister during a lengthy sit-down interview that her personal focus group (of her own mum and dad) suggested the proposal was in strife.
“Well, I’m asking Australians to trust themselves and their own judgement,’’ Mr Albanese said.
“But their judgement is ‘we don’t get this’,” Langdon responded. “We don’t know what it is. “It’s wishy washy.”
“There’s this Voice, but I don’t know it doesn’t have any real power. It doesn’t have any real legs. It can change over time and might look different in a decade to what it is now and that scares people.
“I mean, my parents don’t understand it. They’ve looked at it, their group of friends who have looked at it and don’t understand it, that is a massive problem.”
Mr Albanese insisted the change would not impact most voters’ day to day lives.
“This is about faith, hope and love and indeed it is about bringing Australia together. It is positive,’’ he said.
“It is just an advisory group. It is no more complicated than that it is an advisory group on matters that affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people,’’ he said.
Mr Albanese said that when people had looked at the Voice they came to a positive position with many faith groups backing the proposal.
“But I’m not sure people who are undecided and who are No people simply haven’t looked at it,’’ Langdon countered
“It is aimed at closing the gap on health and education and housing. We know at the moment there is still an eight year life expectancy gap,’’ Mr Albanese said.
“If you are a young Indigenous male, you’re more likely to go to jail than university. If you are a young Indigenous woman, you are more likely to die in childbirth than if you are a non- Indigenous woman. Birth weights, childbirth weights, there is a gap in so many areas.”
When asked if a failed referendum would show Australia to be a racist nation Mr Albanese said it would not.
“No, it doesn’t. People will make their own decisions,” Mr Albanese said.
Earlier, Liberal leader Peter Dutton said Anthony Albanese has been “completely obsessed with the Voice”.
“It is going to be Canberra-based. It’s not going to provide the panacea that the Prime Minister is promising,” he said.
“We know that we’ve got a Prime Minister who just deliberately is withholding information from the Australian public.
“And I don’t believe that the Australian public can trust Anthony Albanese when it comes to this Voice debate. It is unknown. It’s divisive, it’s permanent.”
Mr Dutton said the Prime Minister could not bully voters into a Yes vote.
“Now I know the Prime Minister likes hanging out with CEOs of airlines and other rich people and the bosses of the union movement. But the fact is that for ordinary Australians, they just want the detail,” he said.
“So I don’t think people should be bullied into a position.”
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