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If you haven’t seen it already, the latest Essential poll shows the majority of Australians still support the voice.

As Murph reports:

The latest fortnightly survey of 1,000 respondents suggests a soft no campaign by the Liberal leader, Peter Dutton, unleashed over the summer break has, thus far, failed to shift voter sentiment, with 65% of respondents supporting the change, a two-point increase from the percentage recorded last December.

That positive movement falls inside the poll’s margin of error and the February percentage is consistent with a result recorded last August, before Dutton intensified his public campaign of asking questions about the proposal.

I’ll say two things. One is, for the Greens, the Greens are still centrally in balance of power in the Senate. Anything that’s opposed by the Liberals will need the Greens’ support if the government wants to get it through. Of course the government may in some instances now have to get additional votes but they have to do that at the moment already.

Of course, I was very grateful that Senator Thorpe made a commitment yesterday when she spoke publicly that she will still be voting with the Greens on climate.