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Ray Martin struggles to explain what The Voice will be like as he defends calling non-voters ‘dinosaurs and assholes’ – before Jacinta Price explains the real problem with his rant
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Ray Martin has struggled to clarify his controversial view that those following the No campaign slogan ‘if you don’t know, vote no’ for the next referendum are ‘dinosaurs and dickheads’ – as Jacinta Price explains why this is the case. embarrassing.
The veteran TV journalist attempted to explain his views during Seven Spotlight’s Voice to Parliament referendum debate on Sunday night.
He appeared on the show alongside prominent No campaigner and Liberal National Party senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, “progressive” No campaigner and independent senator Lidia Thorpe and Labor senator Malarndirri McCarthy.
Martin, who made his comments at a Yes rally in Marrickville last month, strongly denied Spotlight host Liam Bartlett’s claim that he was “abusing people with a different opinion”.
“I didn’t say that no voters were dinosaurs or dickheads. I said that those who vote no because they don’t know it, this slogan is one of the stupidest I never heard,” he said.
Veteran journalist Ray Martin (pictured) attempted to explain what he meant when he suggested that those following the No campaign slogan were “a dinosaur or a dickhead”.
Bartlett countered that those who noticed the slogan were, in Martin’s mind, a “dinosaur or a dickhead.”
Martin then said yes and no voters should be informed when they vote.
“You didn’t say that, you said No to the voters,” Bartlett responded.
“No, I didn’t. If you read my speech, that’s not true. That’s absolutely not true,” Martin said.
He then agreed with Bartlett’s view that Australians should not vote on “emotion”, and added that Yes voters who did not look at the referendum properly were also “assholes”.
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