Linda Burney blasts Peter Dutton for spreading ‘misinformation’ on Indigenous voice

Minister attacks scare campaign' after opposition leader says plan would re-racialise' Australia

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The minister for Indigenous Australians has blasted Peter Dutton for spreading misinformation and scare campaigns" about the Indigenous voice, after the opposition leader invoked George Orwell in claiming that the referendum would wind back progress of the civil rights movement.

Linda Burney accused critics of the voice of being hell-bent on stoking division" and hinted that the government wasn't planning on amending its constitutional proposal.

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