Dutton’s nuclear spin is an alibi, not a policy

In the week after the Liberals’ disastrous result in the Aston by-election, Peter Dutton finally came to a firm position on a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous Voice to parliament: he would oppose it. But he wasn’t only against something: he was in favour of things too. Specifically, he wanted symbolic constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians, and legislated local Voices.

About the negative campaign itself, as some noted at the time, Dutton may have had little choice. It would have been exceedingly difficult to coax the entire Coalition into supporting the Voice; perhaps even into taking some middle line and neither supporting nor opposing it. Doing so would have risked a damaging internal dispute. After Aston, the announcement brought the side together in common cause and reminding MPs that Dutton was one of them..

Whatever the shape of the final policy, there are two fascinating parallels with Dutton’s post-Aston opposition to the Voice. The first is that the important thing is not the policy but what the policy allows Dutton to avoid. As with ending Indigenous disadvantage, he avoids a fight with Labor over whether the issue itself – in this case climate change – is important.

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