The Latest Breaking News on Indigenous Australia

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

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.

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’

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.

Polling catchments where Indigenous Australians form more than 50% of the population voted on average 63% in favour of the voice

Both the 'yes' and 'no' camps say Australia needs to look forward and come together after a referendum to establish an Indigenous voice to parliament failed.

The result of the Voice referendum on Saturday was unexceptional if considered in light of the constitutional history of this country.

Neither equality nor detail were offered at the federation referendum and it would have failed too if Saturday’s arguments prevailed

Saturday’s referendum vote reinforces sense that contemporary Liberal party has decoupled from its blue-ribbon metropolitan heartland

Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles says his government will look for new ways to lift Indigenous living standards after voters soundly rejected a proposal to create a new advocacy committee

Newspapers and broadcasters abroad and in Australia reflect on the defeat and ask what happens next