Noel Pearson says Indigenous voice is not about ‘party politics’ and will cut wasteful spending

Pearson says referendum is not a competition between blue and red' after Anthony Albanese's Garma festival speech

The prime minister's Garma speech was the unequivocal" support for an Indigenous voice to parliament of an Australian leader, not a party politician, the Cape York leader, leading yes" campaigner and Guugu-Yimithirr lawyer Noel Pearson has said.

The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, told the Garma festival in north-east Arnhem Land on Saturday that he would not defer or delay the referendum, and dismissed no" campaigners as being desperate to talk about anything but the actual question".

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