More than 60 per cent of Australians voted No in referendum
A Yes supporter in Sydney, Australia, after a referendum to recognise First Peoples in the constitution is rejected. Photograph: Jenny Evans/Getty ImagesAustralian Indigenous leaders call for week of silence and reflection after referendum to recognise First Peoples in constitution is decisively rejected.
“This is a bitter irony,” the Indigenous leaders said in a statement. “That people who have only been on this continent for 235 years would refuse to recognise those whose home this land has been for 60,000 and more years is beyond reason.”As von der Leyen visits Israel, is the European Commission overstretching its powers?
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people make up 3.8 per cent of Australia’s 26 million population and have inhabited the country for about 60,000 years. But they are not mentioned in the constitution and are the country’s most disadvantaged people by most socioeconomic measures. Australian Indigenous leader and former national rugby union player Lloyd Walker said the path to reconciliation seemed difficult now but the community needed to keep fighting. “We can say it got outvoted but there was still 40 per cent of the people that wanted it. Years and years ago we wouldn’t have that percentage for sure,” Walker said.
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