Labor senator says Australians ‘will not let go’ of Indigenous reconciliation as Albanese under pressure to outline plan B

Victorian Labor senator Jana says the voice campaign shows there’s a growing push for reconciliation. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Millions of Australians inspired by the yes campaign for an Indigenous voice “will not let go”, Labor senator Jana Stewart says, as the Albanese government faces increasing pressure to outline a plan B.

Stewart, a Victorian senator and Mutthi Mutthi and Wamba Wamba woman, said although Australians didn’t agree to the voice, the referendum campaign had highlighted the “real need … for some truth-telling” and a push to close the gap and achieve reconciliation.