Labor’s bill to ditch public funding for voice campaigns backed by review but Coalition dissents

Five dissenters in parliamentary committee say they are concerned about ‘trickery or rigging the system’

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The Albanese government’s plan to change the laws around referendums has been supported by a parliamentary review, but there was strong dissent from Coalition MPs who say they cannot “in good conscience” endorse changes that remove the government’s obligation to fund the yes and no campaigns on an Indigenous voice to parliament.

The electoral matters committee on Monday recommended that Labor’s referendum bill be passed, if amendments were made to strengthen Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participation and enrolment, and as long as “clear, factual and impartial information” about the vote was made accessible to all voters.

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