Linda Burney (Barton, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Indigenous Australians) Share this | Hansard source

What we have in this nation is a group of people that are poorer, sicker and more incarcerated and die earlier than anyone else. The Voice and the referendum are about doing things differently to change those things. It is not about individual statements of people that are involved in this. I am not responsible for what other people say, but I'll tell you what I'm responsible for. I'm responsible for what I say and what I do. At every step of the way, I have conducted myself with integrity, I have conducted myself properly, and I have conducted myself with honesty. I have embraced every single person in this parliament if they wished to participate. The working group has provided advice on a number of occasions, including to the Leader of the Opposition and the then shadow minister for Aboriginal affairs on two occasions. Do not use the ridiculous, underhanded notions that you're using—

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