When the bill to authorise a referendum on the Voice to Parliament was passed in the Senate on June 19, members on the Labor side stood and clapped and cheered, along with a partisan gallery. As if the date was January 1, 1901, when the Australian Federation came into being in the first Federal Parliament of the time.
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