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Australia’s main opposition party has decided to oppose the government’s model for constitutional recognition of Indigenous people in a development that appears to doom the prospects of a successful referendum this year

The Liberal Party will formally oppose enshrining an Indigenous voice in the constitution – with Peter Dutton pledging to campaign against it.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton announces the Liberals' formal opposition to the federal government's model for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, after a party room meeting in Canberra.

‘The prime minister is dividing our country and the Liberal Party seeks to unite our country,’ Peter Dutton said.

Aboriginal people who make up 41 per cent of a remote WA region's population have differing views about what the Voice to Parliament could look like.

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As a practising Catholic, it makes one feel totally ashamed of the Catholic Church in regards to this matter.

Peter Dutton appeared to hold firm against calls to bring the party towards lost seats in metropolitan Australia.

As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation’s politics team.

The leader of a remote Aboriginal town is hoping the Voice to Parliament will mean his people will not have to call out so loudly to be heard, but he is concerned that may not be the outcome.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has signed off on a TikTok ban on federal government devices, and a growing number of Liberal MPs want a conscience vote on the Voice to Parliament. (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this column mentions a deceased person.)