Liddle responds to Johns’ claim that some people in Indigenous communities live in a ‘stupor’, and calls for greater respect in voice referendum debate
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Voice referendum no campaigner and Liberal senator Kerrynne Liddle has responded to controversial comments from no campaigner Gary Johns, who last month claimed some people in Indigenous communities lived in a “stupor” and recommended they “learn English”.
“I don’t agree with some of those comments,” she says. “That’s not the way I’ve conducted discussion on voice.”