Grattan on Friday: Langton and Price fight with passion and gloves off for beliefs.

Worse was to come when various Langton comments from the past were dug up, including a derogatory one about opposition Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, the leading Indigenous woman of the "no" campaign, and her mother Bess, who was formerly in the Northern Territory parliament. Anthony Albanese cemented victory in the 2022 election by being mostly highly cautious and having Labor run, by and large, a tight campaign. Langton was co-author, with Tom Calma, of a seminal report on a Voice under the former government, and a member of the Albanese government's working group on the referendum. [Extracted from the article]