Kerrynne Liddle (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Child Protection and the Prevention of Family Violence) Share this | Hansard source

If you are of voting age, whatever your age, this referendum is possibly one of the most important decisions you will ever make. You will now go to the ballot box without detail, with an untested, risky proposition which, if successful, will be permanent. There is not an Australian that does not want the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to be better, because when that happens we all benefit. The Australian Constitution belongs to everyone equally. This is not the right reason, not the right question, not the right words and not the right solution for change. Abdicating accountability for change is a cop-out. This is another bureaucracy, as if they are not enough voices already. The Voice concept, the Voice conversation and the conduct of the opposition in the path of this bill will take us to a divided nation, regardless of the result. Labor's Voice is full of risk, full of expectations and full of emotion. So now I, like you, get to go to the ballot box to say no to that.