Shadow Attorney-General Julian Leeser will resign from the Opposition cabinet after the Liberal Party resolved to oppose the Voice to Parliament referendum in a move that bound frontbenchers.
Leeser, the Coalition’s most senior pro-Voice figure, will move to the backbench in order to campaign in favour of the referendum after the Liberal partyroom resolved last week to formally oppose the referendum.
The shadow attorney-general, Julian Leeser, will resign from the Opposition front bench to campaign for the Voice to Parliament.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen
Shadow ministers are bound by party’s decision to oppose the Voice but backbenchers will be allowed a free vote, as is the norm.
Leeser will make the announcement at a press conference in Sydney later on Tuesday morning.
More to come.
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