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Mid Winter Fishing

Peter Dutton and Anthony Albanese fish at an ice hole. Albanese says that he is fishing for 'the Voice', Dutton says, 'You're using the wrong bait!'

In the years since the Uluru Statement from the Heart (2017) called for a constitutionally enshrined Voice to parliament, opinion polls regularly recorded high levels of support from the Australian public. By mid-July 2023, however, the public mood had changed, with combined national polls showing support had dipped to below 50 per cent. Dean Alston suggests that perhaps Anthony Albanese is going about the referendum the wrong way, given the outcome he wants.