Newsroom edition: Is it too late for a respectful debate on the voice?

Published: Aug. 31, 2023, 3 p.m.

This week the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, announced 14 October as the date for the voice to parliament referendum. And as the campaign gears up, the stakes are high and the conversation increasingly pernicious. Gabrielle Jackson talks to editor-in-chief Lenore Taylor and Indigenous affairs editor Lorena Allam about the moment that could define Australia\u2019s national character