Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

As I said earlier, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Indigenous Australians, face worse life expectancy, worse results in education and employment, worse outcomes in health and so much more. Regrettably, there are too many in this debate who are prepared to look to their own political interests rather than the interests of the nation. I remind the Senate of what I spoke about yesterday, which was Mr Coorey being told by a colleague—maybe one of those opposite, or certainly a colleague of those opposite:

We can't win the election unless we defeat the Voice solidly, ie we need to defeat it to get to the election starting line.

I know those opposite might not like that, but I think what it demonstrates is, yet again, their habit of putting politics over people. That is the approach we remember from the Morrison-Dutton government, and we see that now.