Mundine calls for Australia Day date change and backs treaties despite opposing voice

Warren Mundine, a leading anti-voice campaigner, made the comments despite his no campaign warning against such radical' changes

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Leading no vote spokesperson Warren Mundine has called for the date of Australia Day to be changed, and for multiple treaties with Australia's First Nations, despite his own campaign raising these as potential radical" consequences of voting for an Indigenous voice to parliament.

Mundine, who founded the Recognise a Better Way group opposing the voice, also hinted on Sunday that fellow no vote advocate Gary Johns had been told to keep quiet, after a backlash over Johns' comments suggesting blood tests for access to welfare, and that some people in Indigenous communities lived in a stupor".