Warren Mundine claims Voice is back

Indigenous political commentator Warren Mundine believes Labor’s Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong let her guard down and revealed the Albanese Government would be pushing for another Voice referendum if elected at the upcoming Federal election.

Writing in the Daily Mail, Mr Mundine said Labor was refusing to listen to the message of the Australian people, who at the 2023 Referendum rejected the Voice.

‘The Voice was rejected in the cities and in the regions alike, including the multicultural suburbs of western Sydney and Melbourne – Labor’s so-called heartland,” Mr Mundine wrote.

“The Albanese Labor government spent nearly $500 million on a Referendum to be told this but still won’t accept the message.

“The Voice was an ideological project of elites – academics, lawyers, corporates and the Aboriginal peak bodies who already advise on and design Aboriginal policy.

“It offered no solutions and would have been a vast, pointless bureaucracy; a giant mission manager entrenched in the constitution.”

Mr Mundine said the solution to Aboriginal poverty and disadvantage was not rocket science.

“Get every Aboriginal child to school every day, get every Aboriginal adult into a real job and ensure the communities in which Aboriginal people live are safe, with laws upheld and zero tolerance for criminal and anti-social behaviour,” he said.

Mr Mundine’s claims came a day after Foreign Minister Penny Wong shocked voters by declaring the Indigenous Voice to Parliament was an “inevitability”.

Senator Wong has since backtracked on her earlier comments, saying there would not be a second referendum.