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Rolfe's bias accusations against coroner 'groundless'

Zachary Rolfe's lawyers say a coroner did not "distance herself" from conversations about "spearing"t he former cop as punishment for Kumanjayi Walker's death.

AAP

New Zealand in political limbo as National considers shape of coalition

Centre-right party ousted Labour in election but outstanding votes will determine if National needs populist party NZ First to govern

The Guardian - AU

People who watched Sky News more likely to have voted no in referendum, survey finds

Research conducted in the final week of the campaign gauged what people were thinking when they took to the ballot box

The Guardian - AU

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The era of reconciliation has ended. Settler Australia refuses to be ‘the other’ to a redemption story

‘Yes’ got almost none of the middle 30% of voters. They live in a post-Anglo country, with no sense of obligation to the past.

Crikey

Crunching the numbers on Indigenous support for the Voice

The arrival of hard answers in the form of Saturday’s voting results has done little to quell the dispute over Indigenous support for the Voice.

Crikey

Was the No campaign really free from Australia’s ‘elite powerbrokers’?

The Australian was clear in its analysis of the crushing victory of the No campaign in this weekend’s referendum: the battlers won and the elites lost. How does that hold up?

Crikey

‘Bring your own horse’: What did a remote Indigenous community do on referendum day?

Dust-heavy, shade-light and set against a backdrop of billowing smoke. Welcome to community horseracing.

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Peter Dutton walks back offer of second referendum after voice poll

Asked about another referendum on Indigenous recognition, opposition leader says Australians won’t want that ‘for some time’

The Guardian - AU

Australia is now a legal fiction

Far from maintaining the status quo, the No vote reduces the Australian constitution to a legal fiction predicated on the lie that First Peoples were not dispossessed by white invasion.

Crikey

Albanese will wear the blame for the Voice failure, regardless of fairness

The political fallout will take a while to settle beyond the fact that the prime minister is diminished and Peter Dutton victorious. But will it matter at the next election?

Crikey

Reports of Islamophobic incidents in Australia rise – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: Albanese’s next step after voice defeat, Gaza refugee crisis, Afghanistan trounce England

Cabinet to consider options after no vote; Egypt moves more troops towards Gaza border amid fears of refugee crisis; England humbled by Afghanistan at the Cricket World Cup

The Guardian - AU

School suspensions entrench disadvantage. What are the alternatives and how have they worked overseas?

Suspension from school is meant to be a last resort for serious problem behaviour. Despite that, an alarming number of children are suspended every year, often at young ages, for minor reasons.

The Conversation

Labour's loss of Māori vote may be long-term

Labour’s loss of at least four of Māori electorate seats is more than just a blip or a slap to Labour. It could signal a fundamental generational, economic and demographic shift, writes Aaron Smale

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The Guardian - AU

NSW government axes dozens of environmental roles in ‘backward step’

Exclusive: Coalition accuses Labor of hypocrisy and says delay in rewarding farmers to protect nature is a ‘disgrace’

The Guardian - AU

Cabinet to consider interim listening mechanism after resounding no vote on voice

Albanese government plans to let dust settle after Saturday’s loss with focus potentially shifting to state-based voice and treaty processes

The Guardian - AU

‘A knife in your heart’: Indigenous Australians grapple with grief after voice defeat

‘I have been crying – I know I will never live to see another referendum,’ says Kuwarra Pini Tjalkatarra woman and great-grandmother Geraldine Hogarth

The Guardian - AU

The voice referendum turned into an overdue civics lesson. Sadly, many failed the test

Misinformation is a scam on democracy and a threat to our social fabric. We are at risk of being slowly undermined by absurd conspiracy theories

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The Guardian - AU

In the aftermath of the voice referendum, how can we unbork a polarised Australia? Here are three ways forward

A national anti-racism framework, a Human Rights Act and discrimination law could all do a lot of good, especially for Indigenous Australians

The Independent UK

Australia’s Indigenous leaders call for week of ‘silence and reflection’ after referendum defeat

‘The only thing we ask is that each and every Australian who voted in this election reflect hard’

The Independent UK

Who is Christopher Luxon – New Zealand’s new PM who vows to lead country out of economic slump

It has only been three years since Mr Luxon entered politics

Al Jazeera

Indigenous Australians call for ‘week of silence’ after referendum failure

Mourning, calls for truth-telling after Australians vote no to giving Indigenous people more political representation.

The Conversation

How did the media perform on the Voice referendum? Let's talk about truth-telling and impartiality

The rules by which politics are conducted have changed dramatically, especially since the rise of Trumpism. Yet the professional mass media continue to cover politics in ways that are no longer fit for purpose.

The Guardian - AU

‘Echo chamber of elites’: outer urban areas ignored by yes campaign, Labor MP Mike Freelander say

South-west Sydney MP says ‘a lot of people felt disfranchised’ as Hunter MP Dan Repacholi says voters were ‘more keen to hear about cost of living’

The Conversation

Voice referendum results point to shifting faultlines in Australian politics

It was Martin Luther King Jr, prophet and martyr of the civil rights movement in the United States, who famously remarked, “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice”. Yet there are times when justice seems to become more distant rather than closer.

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