Indigenous campaigners accuse government of ‘flippant’ response to no vote ahead of ‘week of silence’

‘Imagine saying tonight that you are proud of being Australian when First Nations people are in mourning,’ says Allira Davis, niece of Prof Megan Davis and chair of the Uluru youth dialogue. Photograph: Alex Pantling/FIFA/Getty Images

Prominent Indigenous campaigners have criticised the Albanese government’s response to defeat in the referendum to entrench an Indigenous voice in the constitution before a week of silence to “grieve” the result.

Campaigners from the Uluru Dialogue have accused the government of a “copout” and “flippant” response to the referendum’s defeat.