Jim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Thanks to the member for understanding what the PM has said on a number of occasions. This is First Nations people reaching out their hands to us, and we shouldn't slap their hands away. This is a gracious and generous invitation and it's a generational opportunity. This is our chance to bring together our principles and our pragmatism and do something that we can be genuinely proud of. The Voice is about constitutional recognition, it's about listening and it's about getting better outcomes for the first of us in a way that could lift all of us up.

It's about doing things differently and doing things better in our economy and in our society, and getting better value for money as we try and close the gap. That's what the Voice is about.

It's not about the lies and the misinformation which we have seen peddled by parts of the 'no' campaign. The Leader of the Opposition has not distanced himself from that misinformation; he has embraced it. In this campaign of misinformation and mistruths the opposition leader is the chief propagandist. We saw that yesterday.

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