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By Byron Kaye and Praveen Menon SYDNEY (Reuters) - Upbeat polls and big-name endorsements greeted Australia's referendum campaign for Indigenous recon...

Leaders in politics, business, the law and academia wrongly believed they could use their power to help a profoundly disadvantaged group.

The government says the vote 'is not the end of reconciliation'.

The government says the vote 'is not the end of reconciliation'.

'There's going to be a lot of disappointment in a lot of Aboriginal homes tonight.'

The Voice to Parliament was resoundingly defeated across Australia, with the share of the No vote in some rural parts of the country well over 80 per cent.

Liberal Senator Michaelia Cash has delivered a scathing assessment of the unsuccessful Voice to Parliament vote and labelled the campaign “traumatic” for many Australians.

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian Indigenous leaders called on Sunday for a week of silence and reflection after a referendum to recognise the First Peoples in the constitution was decisively rejected by a majority of the population. More than 60% of Australians voted "No" in the landmark referendum on Saturday, the first in almost a quarter of a century, that asked whether to alter the constitution to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people through the creation of an Indigenou...

The country has overwhelmingly voted No to a proposal aimed at elevating First Nations voices.

Aboriginal Australians on Sunday voiced anger and sorrow over the rejection of a landmark push for Indigenous rights and recognition, which was spurned by the countrys white majority in a binding national referendum.