Exclusive: Mark Speakman supports referendum yes campaign but says ‘we need to be talking now about how to pull things together after 14 October’
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The New South Wales Liberal leader, Mark Speakman, has warned Australians to get ready for the impact of a potential no vote at the voice referendum while refusing to back a separate state-based treaty process.
Speakman, a former NSW attorney general who is voting yes, expressed concern about the impact of the debate over the federal Indigenous voice to parliament, which he believed was on track to fail.
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