Albanese and Dutton crisscross the country as Voice vote draws near

It’s been a busy week for the prime minister and opposition leader as both men travel the country to promote their respective views on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament. 

It’s not easy to pin either of them down: messages to Anthony Albanese’s office about what major campaign events he has planned for the final two days of the referendum campaign have gone without a clear answer. This morning, Albanese was in Sydney, and he planned to fly to Western Australia later in the day. Crikey is told the schedule is somewhat fluid but he plans to visit Adelaide and Tasmania too.

Those visits come after Albanese spruiked the Voice in Uluru, in the Northern Territory, and Melbourne, on Wednesday. Earlier in the week, he went to Port Lincoln and Adelaide in South Australia, and to Broken Hill and Queanbeyan in NSW. 

Peter Dutton doesn’t appear to have logged quite as many kilometres, but he’s done a fair bit of travelling this week, including to Elliott in Tasmania, Glynde in SA, and Brisbane. There were rumours in the Alice Springs press corps he would visit on Wednesday but that did not eventuate. He was in Sydney on Wednesday.   

His office has not responded to phone calls and emails, so what he has in store for the coming days remains a mystery.

Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney’s office reports that she visited Melbourne on Wednesday and will be in Sydney today, including in her electorate of Barton where she’ll be attending various early polling centres.