NSW Liberal leader Mark Speakman says he supports enshrining a Voice to parliament in the Constitution, saying the “disastrous outcomes” facing First Nations communities requires elevating the advisory body into the nation’s founding document.
Directly contradicting his federal leader Peter Dutton, the Cambridge-educated silk who served as the state’s attorney-general for six years said he did not see the constitutional amendment as racist, and it did not present a significant legal risk nor an impediment to “timely and flexible” decision-making.