Voice is ‘tanking’ in the polls and critics who slander ‘No’ voters are partly to blame

Sky News Digital Editor Jack Houghton says the only people he sees dividing Australians are “unhinged journalists” who push their personal politics over objectivity. The Australian Financial Review’s Mark Di Stefano recently wrote an article describing those with strong feelings about the Voice to Parliament as “weirdos and freaks” while panning Sky News for launching a new channel dedicated to the debate. “Those two sentences tell us so much about how most Australian journalists see the Voice,” Mr Houghton said. “They think activists should be able to change the constitution without even having a debate. It is a shocking indictment on our industry and a tactic which will not work. “The Voice is tanking in the polls and people like Di Stefano who slander Australians as freaks are partly to blame.”