Gavin Pearce (Braddon, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Health, Aged Care and Indigenous Health Services) Share this | Hansard source

Deputy Speaker, the clock was still running while you were speaking.

The DEPUTY SPEAKER: I will give you an extra five seconds.

Thank you. The second point I want to raise is this. We talked about division. I'm very passionate about the people that I represent, my constituents. A lovely lady who's 89 came up to me in the street the other day; she's a beautiful woman who's raised half a dozen foster kids—some of them, Indigenous—and she whispered to me, 'I don't think I can support this Voice, Gavin.' And there was no-one around. The fact that that beautiful person, who didn't have a racist bone in her body, thought that she had to whisper because of the shame of having a different opinion to what she was, supposedly, supposed to have—that is division, and that is division that we can't live with.

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