Can republicans rally after Australia’s resounding no to constitutional reform on the voice?

‘Albanese swore his allegiance to King Charles III, declared a republic was not “imminent”, and that he didn’t want to be a prime minister who “presides over just constitutional debates”.’ Photograph: Hollie Adams/Getty Images

Anthony Albanese once declared that “Australians don’t rush to tinker with the constitution but nor do they avoid it altogether”.

He made that claim in November 2019 in a speech to the Australian Republican Movement (Arm), in a section expressing optimism that an Indigenous voice and an Australian head of state were both ideas whose time had come.