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Paul Osborne

Last-minute bid to stop Indigenous referendum fails

Robbie Thorpe has previously sought to charge the Commonwealth with genocide. (Daniel Pockett/AAP PHOTOS)

An Indigenous activist's High Court bid to stop the voice referendum from going ahead has failed.

Robbie Thorpe, the uncle of independent senator Lidia Thorpe, sought to argue Saturday's vote was "an attack on Aboriginal sovereignty".

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