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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rod McGuirk

Failed referendum on Indigenous rights sets back Australian government plans to become a republic

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Australia’s failed referendum on the Indigenous Voice has set back the government’s plans to cut the nation’s constitutional ties to Britain’s King Charles III, a minister said Thursday.

Australians last week overwhelmingly rejected the referendum that would have enshrined in the constitution an Indigenous advisory body to Parliament.

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